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Orchid Species: Masdevallia rosea
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia rosea is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1845.
ORIGIN: A cold growing, miniature sized, epiphytic species from Narino and Putumayo Colombia and Ecuador in cloud forests that is found at elevations of 2400 to 3400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A cold growing, miniature sized, epiphytic species from Narino and Putumayo Colombia and Ecuador in cloud forests that is found at elevations of 2400 to 3400 meters with slender, erect, blackish ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose tubular sheaths and carrying an erect, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate to obovate, acute, clustered, dark green leaf that is cuneate below into the slender, channeled, blackish petiole that blooms in the fall and winter with an erect to arcuate, slender, to 7 [17.5 cm] long, solitary flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and with a bract below the middle that all slightly exceeds leaf height.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 to 3 inches [5 to 8 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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