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Orchid Species: Masdevallia molossus
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia molossus is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1876.
ORIGIN: Found in Antioquia and Valle de Cauca Colombia in forests near watercourses at elevations of 1600 to 2100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with slender, suberect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute to obtuse leaf that gradually narrows into the petiolate base and blooms in the fall through spring on a slender, 1 3/4 [4.2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a thin sheath near the base and a thin, tubular floral bract.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/8 inch [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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