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Masdevallia lawrencei is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in 1895. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Masdevallia guttulata.
ORIGIN: A mini-miniature sized, caespitose, hot to warm growing epiphytic species found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador along watercourses, at elevations of 400 to 1100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A mini-miniature sized, caespitose, hot to warm growing epiphytic species found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador along watercourses, at elevations of 400 to 1100 meters with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute leaf that gradually narrows below into a petiole and blooms mostly in the winter on a stout, suberect, triquetrous, congested, successively several single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a basal bract and a thin, imbricating floral bract that holds the single flower at or well above leaf height. Separated from others in the section by the whitish sepals with minute tufts of red hairs within as well as the apices of the lateral sepals are usually triangular and tailess but occasionally some narrowing is present that creates a short, broad tail apically.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/8 to 3/4 inch [2 to 3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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