Masdevallia rana-aurea Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo by Alfonso Doucette
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and Epidendra Orchid Page
Watercolor by © Carl Luer and Missouri Botanical Garden Press Orchid Page
Common Name The Golden Frog Masdevallia [Refers to the yellow flower]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in northwestern Peru without collection data as a mini-miniature sized presumably epiphytic orchid with erect, slender, blackish ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the blackish petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, suberect, [4 to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, with a tubular floral bract.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum XVIII. Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen. Pleurothallis sect. Pleurothallis, subsect. Longiracemosae, subsect. Macrophyllae-Racemosae, subsect. Perplexae, subgen. Pseudostelis, subgen. Acuminatia. Addenda to Dracula, Lepanthes, Masdevallia and Pleurothallis. Miscellaneous new species of Dryadella, Lepanthes and Pleurothallis Luer 1999 drawing fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 27 Luer & Dalstroem 2004 watercolor fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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