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Orchid Species: Masdevallia cuprea
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia cuprea is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1843.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador and Peru as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at an elevation of 800 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Ecuador and Peru as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at an elevation of 800 to 1500 meters with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, subacute leaf that gradually narrows into an indistinct petiole that blooms in the summer and fall on a congested, successively few flowered, [2 3/8 to 4 3/8 [6 to 11 cm] long, racemose, triquetrous, slender inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with imbricating, tubular floral bracts and holding the single flower at mid-leaf height.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/8 inch [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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