Masdevallia teaguei Luer 1978 SUBGEN Teagueia Luer 1986
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by © Ramiro Medina T
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Teague's Masdevallia [American orchid enthusiast in Ecuador Current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 2450 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, dark green, elliptical-ovate, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below in to the slender, blackish, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on an erect, slender, terete, 4.8 to 8.4" [12 to 21 cm] long, congested, successively several flowered inflorescence arising from above the base of the ramicaul with a bract above the base and loose, tubular floral bracts.
Synonyms Jostia teaguei (Luer) Luer 2000; Masdevallia braasii H.Mohr 1984
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 as Jostia teaguei drawing/photo fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 as Jostia teaguei drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as Jostia teaguei drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Vol XXV Masdevallia Part 5 Luer 2003 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 5 2006 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo; Orquideologia Vol 26 No 1 2009 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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