Masdevallia scitula Königer 1981 SUBGENUS Polyantha SECTION Alaticaules SUBSECTION Alaticaules [Krzl.] Luer 1986
Photos by © Klaus Eisses and Infojardin Orchid Photo Website
Common Name The Pretty Masdevallia
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Peru at elevations around 3000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceouse, narrowly elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the slender, indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, erect, triquetrous, 3.6" to 4.4" [9 to 11 cm] long, purple flecked, congested, successively few flowered inflorescence with a bract at the base and tubular, imbricating floral bract..
Synonyms Alaticaulia scitula (Königer) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIX Masdevallia Part 1 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 Alaticaulia scitula; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Masdevallia in Detail Vol 5 Sijm etal 2010 photo/drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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