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Byrsella mooreana is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Luer in 2006. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Masdevallia mooreana.
ORIGIN: Found in Santander and Norte de Santander state of Colombia and Venezuela in cloud forests at elevations near 2500 to 2800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, thin, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a stout, erect to suberect, 1.6 to 10.4 [4 to 11 cm] long, single flowered, purple speckled inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a tubular floral bract.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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