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Masdevallia melanoxantha aff. is an orchid species name for which no taxonomic record was found. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Masdevallia melanoxantha.
ORIGIN: Found in the northeastern cordillera of Boyaca and Norte de Santander Colombia and in western Venezuela in cloud forests on mossy tree trunks and branches at elevations of 1400 to 2800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, warm to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the stout petiole that blooms in the spring and fall on a congested, successively several flowered, racemose, 14 [35 cm] long, slender, erect, triquetrous inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a basal bract and a thin, imbricating, tubular floral bract holding the successive, several flowers well above the leaf.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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