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Masdevallia chiguindensis is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in 1925. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Masdevallia leucantha.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 1400 to 2200 meters in cloud forests.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 1400 to 2200 meters in cloud forests with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped basallly by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, petiolate, narrowly elliptic-obovate, acute leaf that is gradually narrowed below into an indistinct petiolate base and blooms in the later summer on a slender, suberect, 2 to 3 [5 to 7.5 cm] long, solitary flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying a bract below the middle and a floral bract and holding the large single, glabrous flower below the leaf. This species is distinguished by the large, solitary, white flower with a narrow sepaline tube and deflexed, ovate, free portions of the lateral sepals merge into the slender tails.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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