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Orchid Species: Masdevallia sanctae-rosae

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Masdevallia sanctae-rosae is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in 1925.
Genus
Masdevallia (Masd.)
Grex
sanctae-rosae
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Kraenzl.
Year
1925
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ORIGIN: Found in Antioquia Colombia in cloud forests at elevations of 2200 to 2800 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with small, red, bumpy spots and enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular, red bumpy spotted sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, acute leaf that gradually narrows into the long petiole and blooms in the late spring on a horizontal to ascending, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, with a bract below the middle and a tubular floral bract carrying a colorless tailess flower and can be confused with Pleurothallis if attention is not given to the petals and lip.

FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [5 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Byrsella Byrsella sanctae-rosae 2006 (Kraenzl.) Luer
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths sanctae-rosae 1969 (Kraenzl.) Garay
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Masd. sanctae-rosae 'Laval' (1990)
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