Masdevallia priscillana Luer & V.N.M.Rao 2005
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Another Flower Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning Priscilla's Masdevallia [Ecuadorian wife of Orchid Nurseryman Current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador without locality as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, stout, triquetrous, congested, abbreviated, successively single few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a thin, tubular floral bract.
Synonyms Alaticaulia priscillana (Luer & V.N.M.Rao) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 drawing; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 28 Luer & Dalstroem 2006 watercolor fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia priscillana; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Alaticaulia priscilliana drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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