Masdevallia trautmanniana Luer & J.Portilla 1999 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning Trautmann's Masdevallia [German Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, blackish, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, black tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring, on an erect, slender, 1.2" [3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, with a bract at the base and 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; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXII Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 28 Luer & Dalstroem 2006 watercolor fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2015 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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