Masdevallia coccinea?

[Polarizeme]

This plant bloomed and has another spike. I think it may be coccinea possibly? The blemish on the right side is my fault, it happened when I was moving plants around. The spike should bloom soon and I'll have more opportunity to get pics.

Can anyone confirm or deny my guess on this Masd.?

[ronaldhanko]

Thanks for the visits to my blog. I haven't been around much - traveling and rebuilding my orchidarium the last time I was home. This looks like coccinea to me.

[unterallgaier]

Coccinea, yes!

[RosieC]

Gorgeous, and looks like Coccinea to me as well.

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Definitely Masd. coccinea.

[Polarizeme]

Wow! Ask and you shall receive! Thanks for the confirmation. I have a number of pleuros that aren't marked. I purchased a collection of them and in the process of identifying the ones that lost their tags. I've even found a couple that have been mismarked, like the Restrepia trichoglossa as antennifera

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Originally Posted by ronaldhanko

Thanks for the visits to my blog. I haven't been around much - traveling and rebuilding my orchidarium the last time I was home. This looks like coccinea to me.

You're welcome! I found a new genera that I want to collect thanks to you.

[WhiteRabbit]

It's fabulous!

[Polarizeme]

Thank you, she's a bit tattered from shifting around to find the best light, or lack there of for everyone. It has another spike and this one should be fabulous.

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Here's how you can tell it's a Masd coccinea as opposed to the other ones that look similar...

Masd coccinea has rounded lateral sepals that have very short sepaline tails, (when I say very short, I mean, you almost don't even notice them or recognize them as sepaline tails). The length of the sepaline tails on the lateral sepals are what separates it from Masd tovarensis. Masd tovarensis has long, noticeable and recognizable sepaline tails on the lateral sepals.

Masd coccinea flowers, overall, are typically not really all that triangular in shape because of the rounded lateral sepals. This is what separates it from the similar looking Masd amabilis. Masd amabilis has lateral sepals that don't look all that rounded, they have a more triangular shape. The overall shape of the three sepals give the flower of Masd amabilis a distinctly triangular look, which Masd coccinea does not have. Masd amabilis also has long, distinct sepaline tails on the lateral sepals.

Masd coccinea also has a very small, long and thin, triangular dorsal sepal with a long sepaline tail, this is what separates it from the other similar looking Masd barlaeana. Masd barlaeana has a wide triangular dorsal sepal with a distinct, long sepaline tail.

[Polarizeme]

Thank you K.O.O.G. (Philip) for the wonderful description of these similar orchids. The genus Masd. is so large. I suppose the most common plants are the easiest to identify. Then there is the huge variety of hybrids. I can see that unmarked plants are probably not the best to get in this Genera. I've been steering clear of them.