Masdevallia hortensis Luer & R.Escobar

Masdevallia hortensis Luer & R.Escobar is found in area of the Western Cordillera of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2600 meters. This species was first discovered in a region close to the town of Jardín, Colombia, and thus it was named, in a fashion, for the locality where it was found.

Masdevallia hortensis Luer & R.Escobar, Orquideologia 16: 154 (-157), fig (1984).

Masdevallia hortensis Luer & R.Escobar, Photo by Gerrit Verhellen

its native range is Colombia (Antioquia)

Family:

Orchidaceae.

Synonym Name: 

Rodrigoa hortensis (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer

English Name:

The Garden Masdevallia (Refers to the orchid occuring near the town of Jardin which in spanish is Garden)

Description: 

Slender erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, narrowly obovate-elliptical, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the elongate petiole that blooms in the spring on an erect, congested, successively single flowered, 6 to 9 cm long inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and a tubular floral bract all and holding the flower well above the leaf.

Distribution:

Colombia.

Ecological:

In cloud forests at elevations around 2600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring.

Flower size:

2.5 mm

Cultivation:

Climate: Intermediate Cool

Air Circulation: Medium

Light: Medium

Humidity: High

Fertilizer: Weekly

Type:

Collector Team:

J.F.Posada et al., L.Posada,R.Escobar 2707

Type Herbaria:

holotype SEL

Distribution Of Types:

Antioquia (Colombia, Western South America, Southern America)

Ref:

orchidspecies.com

ipni.org

powo.science.kew.org 

ecuagenera.com