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Masdevallia pantex is an orchid species identified by Luer in 1978. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Trisetella pantex.
ORIGIN: Found as a mini-miniature, cool to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 1500 to 2600 meters in Ecuador in moist cloud forests.
DESCRIPTION: Found as a mini-miniature, cool to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 1500 to 2600 meters in Ecuador in moist cloud forests with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, linear to narrowly obovate, semiterete, acute to subacute, gradually narrowes below into the conduplicate petiolate base leaf that is dark green and spotted with purple on the underside and blooms on a 3/4 to 1 1/4 [2 to 3.5 cm] long slender, minutely subverrucose, congested, erect to suberect, inflorescence that arises from low on the ramicaul and has a succession of single flowers occurring in the fall.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/8 inch [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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