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Orchid Species: Masdevallia lenae
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia lenae is an orchid species identified by Luer & Hirtz in 1991.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador in wet forests at elevations around 600 to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, suberect, triquetrous, 4 to 4.4 [10 to 11 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract at the base and tubular, imbricating floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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