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Luzama carmenensis is an orchid species identified by (Luer & Malo) Luer in 2006. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Masdevallia carmenensis.
ORIGIN: Found as a mini-miniature sized, pendant growing epiphyte in cloud forest at elevations of 1000 to 2726 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found as a mini-miniature sized, pendant growing epiphyte in cloud forest at elevations of 1000 to 2726 meters and as such is a cool to cold growing orchid from Ecuador and Colombia with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 short, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute leaf that is cuneate into the slender petiole that blooms in the fall and winter on a slender, single or successively few flowered, horizontal to pendant, 2 to 2 2/5 [5 to 6 cm] long inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and a tubular floral bract holding the flower amid the leaves.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/5 inch [3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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