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Orchid Species: Masdevallia sernae
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia sernae is an orchid species identified by Luer & R.Escobar in 1979.
ORIGIN: Found in Putumayo Colombia, Ecuador and Peru on the eastern slopes of the Andes in rainforests at elevations of 700 to 900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying an erect, to suberect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, subacute to obtuse leaf that gradually narrows below into a subpetiolate base and blooms in the fall on an erect, stout, triquetrous, 3 1/5 to 5" [8 to 12.5 cm] long, successively several flowered, racemose, congested inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying broadly conduplicate, imbricating, acute floral bracts giving rise to occasionally, 2 simultaneously opening flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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