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Orchid Species: Masdevallia navicularis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia navicularis is an orchid species identified by Garay & Dunst. in 1976.
ORIGIN: Found in eastern Colombia in the department of Norte de Santander and western Venezuela as a small sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte in cloud forests at elevations of 1700 to 2600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in eastern Colombia in the department of Norte de Santander and western Venezuela as a small sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte in cloud forests at elevations of 1700 to 2600 meters with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriacaeous, elliptical to narowly elliptical, subacute to obtuse leaf that is cuneate below into the petiolate base and blooms in the spring on an erect congested, 12 [30 cm] long, successively several to many, single flowered, racemose, suberect, triquetrous inflorescence that lengthens as it successively blooms, arising from low on the ramicaul with a basal bract and a thin, imbricating floral bract holding the solitary flower that does not open well above the leaf.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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