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Orchid Species: Masdevallia pinocchio
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia pinocchio is an orchid species identified by Luer & Andreetta in 1978.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador at elevations of 1300 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Ecuador at elevations of 1300 to 1500 meters and is a miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute leaf that has the base cuneate below into the channeled petiole that blooms in the late spring on a congested, erect, triquetrous, to 12 [to 30 cm] long, successively several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from the base of the ramicaul with a tubular, basal bract and thin, tubular, imbricating floral bracts and an interesting flower held well above the leaf that has a moveable labellum.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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