Masdevallia ayabacana

"Masdevallia ayabacana Luer is found in Peru. It is first collected by R. Stümple in Ayabaca, although it is thought that the collection data were erroneous since subsequent efforts by many to locate the species in this region near the Ecuadoran border were without success." 

Masdevallia ayabacana Luer, Phytologia 39: 189 (-190) (1978).

Masdevallia ayabacana Luer, Photo by Torsten Kleffmann

its native range is Peru.

Latin Name: 

Masdevallia ayabacana Luer

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Regalia ayabacana (Luer) Luer

English Name:

Ayabaca Masdevallia (Peruvian Townn).

Description: 

with 2 to 2 1/2" long ramicauls which are enveloped by graduating, scarious, inflated, tubular sheaths with oblanceolate, acute, shortly apiculate, variable in size, thickly coriaceous, articulated to the ramicaul, dark green leaf with a deeply tapered and channeled petiole that blooms in the spring through fall on a
(20 to 35 cm) long, erect, 2 to 3 successive flowered inflorescence that is held way above the leaves and has 5 tubular, scarious, remote bracts.

Distribution:

Peru.

Ecological:

Cool montane rain forest at an altitude around 1200 to 1800 m as a caespitose, miniature to just small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring through fall.

Flower size:

3.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Climate: Intermediate

Air Circulation: Medium

Light: Medium

Humidity: High

Fertilizer: Weekly

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in intermediate to warm conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

Typus:

Collector Team:

C.A.Luer 2269

Type Herbaria:

holotype SEL

Distribution Of Types:

Peru (Western South America, Southern America)

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/153931-2

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:153931-2

http://www.orchidspecies.com/masdayabacana.htm.

https://travaldo.blogspot.com/2019/04/masdevallia-ayabacana-care-and-culture.html

https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Masdevallia_ayabacana

https://www.ecuagenera.com/Masdevallia-ayabacana/en.