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Orchid Species: Masdevallia barrowii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia barrowii is an orchid species identified by Luer in 2002.
ORIGIN: Found in southern Ecuador and northern Peru at elevations around 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptic-obovate, subacute to obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the channelled, elongate petiolate base leaf and blooms in the winter on an erect, basal, congested, few flowered, stout, triquetrous, racemose inflorescence arsing from the base of the ramicaul with a basal bract and imbricating, tubular floral bracts all usually carrying 2 simultaneous flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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