Masdevallia pastinata Luer 1997 SUBGENUS Polyantha SECTION Alaticaules SUBSECTION Alaticaules [Krzl.] Luer 1986
Photos by © Jay Pfahl ©
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
LATE
Common Name The Two-Pronged Hoe Masdevallia [refers to the deep rugae of the lateral sepals]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Risaralda and Caldas departments of Colombia on the western slopes of the Andes as a small sized, cool growing orchid with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, narrowing basally into the narrowly cuneate, petiolate base leaf and blooms in the late spring on an erect, slender, arising from low on the ramicaul, sharply triquetrous, 6" [15 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence which increases in length over time and has a bract at the base ad thin, imbricating, fugaceous floral bracts.
SynonymsAlaticaulia pastinata (Luer) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XIX Systematics of Masdevallia Part One 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia pastinata; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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