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Orchid Species: Masdevallia vidua
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia vidua is an orchid species identified by Luer & Andreetta in 1989.
ORIGIN: Found only in Ecuador at elevations of 1400 to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 inflated, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical-oblong, obtuse leaf that is cuneate below into the channeled petiole where it blooms in the winter, spring and fall on a stout, erect, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the middle of the ramicaul with a basal bract and a dark purple, inflated, cucullate floral bract enveloping the pedicel and the ovary.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm] wide
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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