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Orchid Species: Masdevallia chimboensis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia chimboensis is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in 1925.
ORIGIN: Found in Valle de Cauca Colombia in rainforests at elevations around 60 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a slender, ascending, 1.4 to 1.8 [3.5 to 4.5 cm] long, green flecked with purple, distant, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, with a bract near the base and another below the middle and thin tubular floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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