Masdevallia sanguinea Luer & Andreetta 1980 SUBGENUS Polyantha SECTION Alaticaules SUBSECTION Alaticaules [Krzl.] Luer 1986

Side View of Flower

Photos by © Ecuagenera and Epidendra Orchid Page

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Blood Red Masdevallia [refers to the color of the lip and column]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in southern Ecuador in forests at elevations around 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphytic orchid with erect stout ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a stout, erect, triquetrous, congested, 3.6 to 4" [9 to 10 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising from near the base of the ramicaul, with a basal bract and papery, imbricating floral bracts.

CAUTION I am not convinced that this determination is correct, lip and column should be blood red other than that conforms to the type drawing.

Synonyms Alaticaulia sanguinea (Luer & Andreetta) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIX Masdevallia Part 1 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia sanguinea; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;

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