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Alaticaulia garciae is an orchid species identified by (Luer) Luer in 2006. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Masdevallia garciae.
ORIGIN: This mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphytic plant is found in coastal Venezuela at elevations of 1200 to 1500 meters in rain forests.
DESCRIPTION: This mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphytic plant is found in coastal Venezuela at elevations of 1200 to 1500 meters in rain forests with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 2, loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the petiole that has a single flowered, slender, erect, 1 3/4 to 2 [4 to 5 cm] inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a basal bract and a purple dotted, floral bract with the flower held below the leaves.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/8 inch [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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