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Orchid Species: Masdevallia andreettana
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia andreettana is an orchid species identified by Luer in 1981.
ORIGIN: This mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic species is found in southern Ecuador and northern Peru in cloud forests at 1600 to 2100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: This mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic species is found in southern Ecuador and northern Peru in cloud forests at 1600 to 2100 meters with blackish, slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse leaf with a blackish petiole that blooms on an erect to ascending, slender, 1 1/5 to 1 2/5 [3 to 3, 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a floral bract carrying the long-lasting flower at or just below leaf height. This plant can be mounted so as to display the beautiful flowers at their maximum.
FLOWER SIZE: To 1 x 2 3/4 to 4 inches [2.5 cm x 7 to 10 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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