Masdevallia zumbuehlerae Luer 2002 SUBGENUS Polyanthae SUBSECTION Successiviflorae Luer 2000
Photos by © Dogtooth 77 and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Zumbueler's Masdevallia [Paula Keeler nee Zumbueler American Orchid enthusiast and Discoverer of species current]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador in forests at elevations around 1273 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped by a loose, tubular sheaths and 1 to 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a terete, erect, 2.4" [6 cm] long, lax successively few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, with a close basal bract.
Synonyms Alaticaulia zumbuehlerae (Luer) Luer 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIII Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2000 drawing fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 28 Luer & Dalstroem 2006 watercolor fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia zumbuehlerae; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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