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Acinopetala tubuliflora is an orchid species identified by (Ames) Luer in 2006. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Masdevallia tubuliflora.
ORIGIN: A mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte found in Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica in premontane rainforests at elevations of 350 to 1200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte found in Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica in premontane rainforests at elevations of 350 to 1200 meters with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ellptical, subacute to obtuse leaf that is narrowly cuneate into the petiole blooming on a slender, erect, 2 1/4 to 3 1/2 [6 to 9 cm] long, solitary flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base and a tubular floral bract holding the waxy flower at or just above leaf height occurring in the mid-winter.
FLOWER SIZE: 5/8 inch [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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