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Orchid Species: Masdevallia pyxis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia pyxis is an orchid species identified by Luer in 1978.
ORIGIN: This mini-miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial or lithophytic species is found in Peru at elevations of 2300 to 2650 meters fully exposed on rocky slopes among scrub vegatation in leaf humus.
DESCRIPTION: This mini-miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial or lithophytic species is found in Peru at elevations of 2300 to 2650 meters fully exposed on rocky slopes among scrub vegatation in leaf humus with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-obovate, subacute to obtuse leaf that is gradually narrowed below into a petiole and blooms in the winter on a short, erect, purple spotted, slender, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a basal bract and a loose, tubular, purple spotted flower bract holding the flower below the leaves.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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