Masdevallia wuelfinghoffiana

The name may be a bit of a mouthful but this small growing Masdevallia is gorgeous.

Masdevallia wuelfinghoffiana had really colourful flowers and these are 3cm wide and 3cm tall if you ignore the thin tails that tend to fold backwards.

The leaves are 6cm long and so the 8cm flower stems hold the flowers clear of the leaves.

Masdevallia wuelfinghoffiana is endemic to Ecuador and first collected in 1997 at an altitude of 1800m (see original species description here) so at home in our cloud forest greenhouse (min 12C) although it would also grow a little warmer.