Masdevallia robusta Luer 1998 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Durae [Luer] Luer 2000
Photo by © Tom Sijm
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Robust Masdevallia
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Ecuador without collection data as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an stout, ascending, 6 to 8.8" [15 to 22 cm] long, loose, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from near the base of the ramicaul, with a bract on the lower quarter and another above the base and an inflated floral bract.
Synonyms Regalia robusta (Luer) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXI Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Regalia robusta ; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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