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Orchid Species: Masdevallia livingstoneana
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia livingstoneana is an orchid species identified by Roezl ex Rchb.f. in 1874.
ORIGIN: This is a mini-miniature sized, warmth loving, epiphytic Masdevallia that also likes a humid environment and is found at altitudes below 1000 meters in Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica.
DESCRIPTION: This is a mini-miniature sized, warmth loving, epiphytic Masdevallia that also likes a humid environment and is found at altitudes below 1000 meters in Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, close, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical to obovate, obtuse to rounded apically leaf that gradually narrows into an indistinct petiolate base and blooms in the winter and spring on a suberect to erect, slender, 1 3/5 to 2 2/5 [4 to 6 cm] long inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a tubular bract above the middle, a tubular floral bract and a successively single, showy, sweetly fragrant flower held below leaf height.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/5 inch [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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