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Orchid Species: Masdevallia teaguei
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia teaguei is an orchid species identified by Luer in 1978.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 2450 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, dark green, elliptical-ovate, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below in to the slender, blackish, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on an erect, slender, terete, 4.8 to 8.4 [12 to 21 cm] long, congested, successively several flowered inflorescence arising from above the base of the ramicaul with a bract above the base and loose, tubular floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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