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Orchid Species: Masdevallia collina
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia collina is an orchid species identified by L.O.Williams in 1942.
ORIGIN: This mini-miniature sized epiphytic species is found in Panama at elevations of 800 to 1400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: This mini-miniature sized epiphytic species is found in Panama at elevations of 800 to 1400 meters and is a hot to warm growing orchid that has an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, obtuse leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the subpetiolate base and blooms on a slender, erect, 2 2/5 to 4 2/5 [6 to 11 cm] long, 3 to 5 successively single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle, another just above the base and an oblique floral bract that is multiflowered but only has one at a time open and has the flowers held above the leaves.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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