This is an orchid that I had the honor of finding in the wilds of Ecuador. It had not been named scientifically. The name given zumbuehlerae was in honor of my Aunt Hedwig who introduced me to orchids. her maiden name was Zumbuhl. I will forever be in gratitude for her introduction to the worlds largest flowering plant family! It's description is below. Dr. Carlye Luer keyed out the orchid and published it.
Masdevallia zumbuehlerae Luer 2002 SUBGENUS Polyantha SECTION Alaticaules SUBSECTION Alaticaules [Krzl.] Luer 1986
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 Ecuador in forests at elevations around 1273 meters as a miniature sized, warm to 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 Luer 2000 drawing fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 28 Luer & Dalstroem 2006 watercolor fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia zumbuehlerae
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