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Orchid Species: Masdevallia megaloglossa

Kew currently accepted name is Masdevallia vargasii

Masdevallia megaloglossa is an orchid species identified by Luer & R.Escobar in 1982. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Masdevallia vargasii.

Genus

Masdevallia (Masd.)

Grex

megaloglossa

Parents

Species

Author

Luer & R.Escobar

Year

1982

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ORIGIN: A Colombian, Peruvian, Bolivian, Brazilian and Ecuadorian, miniature sized, caespitose, hot to warm growing epiphyte of wet montane forests in the foothills at an altitude of 200 to 900 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A Colombian, Peruvian, Bolivian, Brazilian and Ecuadorian, miniature sized, caespitose, hot to warm growing epiphyte of wet montane forests in the foothills at an altitude of 200 to 900 meters with a minute, ramicaul that is enveloped by 3 or more tubular bracts carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong-oblanceolate, tapered to the channeled base leaf with the apex emarginate with a central apicule blooming in the spring with erect to suberect, 8 [20 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising from the base of the ramicaul with a basal bract and white, ovate, imbricating floral bracts holding the single flower above the leaves. Blooms more than once a year from the old spikes. The characteristics that separate this species from others are, the yellow flowers and the two raised keels on the labellum.

FLOWER SIZE: 3/8 inch [1cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).

Other Names

	Genus Name	Genus	Grex Name	Year	Author
Add+	Masdevallia	Masd	vargasii	1950	C.Schweinf.
Add+	Masdevallia	Masd	richteri	1975	Pabst
Add+	Alaticaulia	Aat	vargasii	2006	(C.Schweinf.) Luer

Most awarded/recent cultivars: Masd. vargasii 'Venus' (2002)

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