Masdevallia condorensis
Common Name: The Cordillera Condor Masdevallia
Scented: no
Light Requirements: deep shade
Temperature Requirements: intermediate
Blooms: winter
Flower Size: 5cm
Synonyms: none
Found in SE Ecuador at elevations around 1450m as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, blackish, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly linear-oblong, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the slender, indistinct, blackish, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, erect, 1cm to 1.2cm long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract at the base and a tubular floral bract.