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[Ron Maunder <paradiseorchids@paradise.net.nz>]

 Hi Frogpondphrags,

Your Masdevallia Measuresiana is an old old hybrid between 
Masdevallia amabilis and tovarensis.  Registered by Sanders in 1890. 
In those days parents were recorded alphabetically which was not 
necessarily the way the cross was made.  This was not corrected and 
recorded with the pod/female parent first as we have today till 
the1961-70 volume of Sanders.

Masd tovarensis is a white species and for some reason dominates any 
crosses even with coloured mates.   If you check Masd. Measuresiana 
on Google Images you will see all the "washed out" clones which is 
typical of tovarensis hybrids.

Mr Measures of course was quite an orchid grower of his day and no 
doubt a good customer of Sanders so Sanders named this primary cross 
after him.

Ron Maunder

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