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Orchid Species: Masdevallia patula
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia patula is an orchid species identified by Luer & Malo in 1978.
ORIGIN: This orchid is a cloud forest, mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte from Ecuador that occurs around 1500 to 2500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: This orchid is a cloud forest, mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte from Ecuador that occurs around 1500 to 2500 meters with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths carryinmg a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, elliptical, acute leaf that is cuneate below into the slender petiole and blooming in the spring on a slender, horizontal, 4 to 6 [10 to 15 cm] long, successively few-flowered raceme arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and a tubular floral bract holding the single flower below the leaf.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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