Masdevallia wuerstlei Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Polyanthae SUBSECTION Polyanthae Rchb.f 1874
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning Wuerstle's Masdevallia [German Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Colombia without locality as a small sized epiphyte with erect, stout, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close, thin tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a stout, terete, erect, 10.6" [27 cm] long, loose, simultaneously opening, several flowered, racamose inflorescence arising from the base of the ramicaul, with a bract near the middle and at the base and thin, tubular floral bracts.
Checked type, drawing and photo W3Tropicos OK
Synonyms Alaticaulia wuerstlei (Luer) Luer 2006
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 Pleurothallidianrum Vol XIX Masdevallia Part 1 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia wuerstlei ; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007
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