Flea market SF - September 2012
Masdevallia infracta
Partiale shade, cool to hot temperature, flower in summer
This cool to hot growing, small sized, tufted epiphytic species with erect leaves is from the organ Mountains of Brazil, Peru and Bolivia and grows in montane forests at elevations of 1100 to 2000 meters with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute to subacute leaf with the base narrowly cuneate into the petiole that blooms in the summer with an erect, to 7" [17.5 cm] long, congested, slender, erect, round to triquetrous inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, with a basal bract and thin, imbricating, fugacious floral bracts and from 1 to 5 flowers that open in succession, held at or above the leaves.
Masdevallia Yungasensis
Partial shade, cold to coll temperature, flower in winter
A miniature to small sized, Bolivian, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial at elevations of 2150 to 3000 meters in cloud forests or wet montane forests that has erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basallly by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, long-petiolate, elliptical, subacute to obtuse leaf that is cuneate below into the petiole and blooms in the winter on an erect, slender, 1 3/5" to 2 3/5" [4 to 6.5 cm] long inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base and a tubular floral bract that has the single, showy flower held at or below the leaves.
