Masdevallia melanopus (as Masdevallia polysticta) - Curtis' 102 (Ser. 3 no. 32) pl. 6258 (1876), Walter Hood Fitch, 1876

Illustration of masdevallia melanopus (wrongly identified by hooker as masdevallia polysticta, corrected two years later with the plate and description of the "real" masdevallia polysticta, in volume 104 of "curtis's botanical magazine", plate and description 6368). Date: 1876.