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Byrsella velifera 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 velifera.
ORIGIN: A small sized Colombian, epiphytic species found at elevations around 2130 meters in Antioquia state in cloud forests.
DESCRIPTION: A small sized Colombian, epiphytic species found at elevations around 2130 meters in Antioquia state in cloud forests that grows cold with stout, erect, purple-black ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, dark green, elliptical-oblong, subacute to obtuse leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the blackish petiole blooming in the late fall and early winter with a stout, erect, short to 4 [10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the base of the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a inflated, tubular floral bract holding the large solitary, malodorous flower below the leaves.
FLOWER SIZE: To 2 1/2 to 3 inches [6.5 to 7.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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