Masdevallia sanchezii Luer & Andreetta 1980 SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Amaluzae SUBSECTION Amaluzae Luer 1986
Photos by © Milan Vagner
Photo by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name Sanchez' Masdevallia [Ecuadorian co-discoverer of species - Current]
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in southeastern Ecuador in rainforest at elevations of 300 to 1800 meters although it is much more common at the higher elevations as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing, epiphyte with slender, erect, blackish ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, close, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, acute leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the blackish petiole and blooms in the spring on a transverse, slender, 1 1/8" to 1 2/5" [3 to 3.5 cm] long inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a floral bract carrying a solitary flower that is held below the leaves.
Synonyms Luzama sanchezii (Luer & Andreetta) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 47: 57 1980; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 22 Luer & Dalstroem 1997 watercolor/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Systematics of Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Luzama sanchezii; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Luzama sanchezii drawing close to fide lip differs in lack of stripes; Malli Rao
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