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Orchid Species: Masdevallia norae
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Masdevallia norae is an orchid species identified by Luer in 1988.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia, Venezuela and possibly in northwestern Brazil in lowland to lower montane forests as a miniature sized, caespitose, hot to warm epiphyte in lowland forests at elevations of 200 to 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Colombia, Venezuela and possibly in northwestern Brazil in lowland to lower montane forests as a miniature sized, caespitose, hot to warm epiphyte in lowland forests at elevations of 200 to 1000 meters with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 close, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the petiole that blooms in the winter on a congested, erect, successively several flowered, 5" [12.5 cm] long, long lasting raceme arising from low on the ramicaul with a basal bract and imbricating, tubular floral bracts holding single flower at a time at leaf height.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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