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Acinopetala livingstoneana is an orchid species identified by (Roezl ex Rchb.f.) Luer in 2007. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Masdevallia livingstoneana.
ORIGIN: This is a mini-miniature sized, warmth loving, epiphytic Masdevallia that also likes a humid environment and is found at altitudes below 1000 meters in Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica.
DESCRIPTION: This is a mini-miniature sized, warmth loving, epiphytic Masdevallia that also likes a humid environment and is found at altitudes below 1000 meters in Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, close, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical to obovate, obtuse to rounded apically leaf that gradually narrows into an indistinct petiolate base and blooms in the winter and spring on a suberect to erect, slender, 1 3/5 to 2 2/5 [4 to 6 cm] long inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a tubular bract above the middle, a tubular floral bract and a successively single, showy, sweetly fragrant flower held below leaf height.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/5 inch [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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