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Orchid Species: Masdevallia racemosa
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia racemosa is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1845.
ORIGIN: Found only in southern Colombia in very wet, subparamo to paramo on steep embankments and roadcuts, on rocks and in dirt or moss at elevations around 2800 to 3900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Cold growing, mini-miniature sized terrestrial with stout, ascending to erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, subpetillate, narrowly elliptic, subacute leaf with the base narrowly cuneate into the indistinct petiole which blooms on a loose, successively few to several flowered, 4 to 6 [10 to 15 cm] long, slender, erect, purple, racemose inflorescence arising from near the middle of the ramicaul with an infundibulbar floral bract.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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