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Dear OGD's Here is a more interesting genus. Masdevallia. A high elevation, cool to cold growing cloudforest denizen. I always enjoy getting into forests that have them. Often it is hard to see and find them if the clouds are down to the ground, which happens often. It is an eerie feeling being almost in a white darkness at high noon, not far from the equator, a contradiction in terms, unless you have actually seen them occur. Hopefully while you have the time to be there the cloud will rise off the ground and the sun will peak through giving you the chance to espy a few of these little jewels either in the trees or in dwarf gnarly bushes or on rock outcroppings where you have to climb around to find them, or on the surface of a cliff wall. Many are found in deep mosses or lichens with Lepanthes, Restrepiopsis and Stelis . There are more than 350 variations of them, the majority miniatures, but by no means less decorative than many much larger genera, often with flowers larger than the plants. IOSPE has 270 of them so I hope that I can get you all to send in many of the ultimate 80 to 100 or so species that are not represented. They are listed below. Send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as jpeg files around 1000 k if possible Masdevallia acaroi Masdevallia adamsii Masdevallia adrianae Masdevallia affinis Mas aguirrei Mas akemiana Mas albella Mas alvaroi Mas ametroglossa Mas amoena Mas amplexa Mas anceps Mas andrettaeana Mas anemone Mas anisomorpha Mas anomala Mas antonii Mas aphanes Mas aptera Mas araisii Mas assurgens Mas audax Mas aurea Mas aurorae Mas barrowii Mas bathyschista Mas belua Mas bennettii Mas berthae Mas bourdettiana Mas brachyantha Mas brenneri Mas brockmuelleri Mas burriani Mas burzlaffiana Mas cacodes mas calagrasalis Mas cardiantha Mas carnosa Mas carpishica Mas castor Mas catapheres Mas caudivolvula Mas chimboensis Mas cinnamomea Mas clandestina Mas cleistogama Mas cloesii Mas collantesii mas concinna Mas condorensis Mas copioso Mas corazonica Mas cordeliana Mas cosmia Mas crescenticola Mas cretata Mas cucitillensis Mas dalestroemi Mas descendens Mas dorisiae Mas draconis Mas dreisei Mas dryada Mas dudleyi Mas dunstervillei Mas eburnea Mas elegans Mas ephelota Mas eucharis Mas eumeces Mas eumeliae Mas eurynogastor Mas exilipes Mas expers Mas flaveola Masdevallia fonsecae mas formosa Mas fosterae Mas frilehmannii Mas gargantua Mas geminiflora Mas gerlachii Mas gloriae Mas gracilor Mas guayanensis Mas henniae Mas hians Mas hortensis Mas hubeinii Mas hydrae Mas hylodes Mas hystrix Jay Pfahl
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