Masdevallia sanguinea Luer & Andreetta 1980 SUBGENUS Polyantha SECTION Alaticaules SUBSECTION Alaticaules [Krzl.] Luer 1986
Photo by © John Varigos and his Flickr Orchid Photo Page
Photo by © Ecuagenera and Epidendra Orchid Page
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Blood Red Masdevallia [refers to the color of the lip and column]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of southern Ecuador in forests at elevations around 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphytic orchid with erect stout ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a stout, arising from near the base of the ramicaul, with a basal bract, erect, triquetrous, congested, 3.6 to 4" [9 to 10 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with papery, imbricating, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Closely related to M vargasii but distinguished by the shorter, stouter peduncle that is longer than the leaves, the deep red-purple sepals instead of yellow, the tridentate petals and the large, purple lip without the usual 3 parallel, deep purple stripes of M vargasi." Luer 2000
Synonyms Alaticaulia sanguinea (Luer & Andreetta) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 47: 57 1980; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIX Masdevallia Part 1 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia sanguinea; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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