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Orchid Species: Masdevallia foetens
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia foetens is an orchid species identified by Luer & R.Escobar in 1979.
ORIGIN: Found in Antioquia Colombia on the central cordillera in cloud forests at elevations of 1850 to 2400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the channeled petiole and blooms in the spring and fall on a stout, erect, 5/8 to 3/4 [1.5 to 2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence that arises from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a tubular floral bract and carries a single, malodorous flower.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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