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Orchid Species: Masdevallia pulcherrima
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia pulcherrima is an orchid species identified by Luer & Andreetta in 1980.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador at elevations over 2000 meters in cloud forests.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, petiolate, elliptical, subacute leaf that is narrowly cuneate into the petiole that blooms in the summer on an erect then arching, simultaneously several flowered, 4 3/4 to 6 3/4 [12 to 17 cm] long, slender inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with bracts below the middle and at the base and a thin, oblique floral bract.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm] wide
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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