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Orchid Species: Masdevallia medusa
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia medusa is an orchid species identified by Luer & R.Escobar in 1982.
ORIGIN: Found in northeastern Colombia in scrub cloud forests at elevations of 2800 to 3360 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature, cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ellitcal, obtuse leaf that gradually narrows into the petiole and blooms in the winter on a dense to sublax, to 2 3/4 [to 7cm] long, few to several [2 to 6] simultaneously flowered,, triquetrous, racemose inflorescence with a basal bract and thin, imbricating, oblique floral bracts. Can be confused with M sceptrum yet has longer pedicels and shortly connate sepals with somewhat revolute, free margins.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/4 inch [3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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