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Acinopetala crescenticola is an orchid species identified by (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Luer in 2006. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Masdevallia crescenticola.
ORIGIN: Found in western Choco' Colombia and western Ecuador in humid lowlands on Totumo [Crescentia] trees at elevations of 150 to 300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect to suberect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the indistinctly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a slender, horizontal to descending, purple dotted, 1.6 to 2 [4 to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with 3 distant tubular bracts below the middle and a tubular, thin floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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