Masdevallia maxilimax Palm It is found at altitudes

It is found at altitudes of 1800 to 2500 meters on mountain slopes

When the plant is dormant and has lost its leaves

Thrives mounted on tree fern or cork bark

The species name "fractiflexa" refers to the characteristically bent or broken-appearing flower stems

Masdevallia maxilimax Palm It is found at altitudesFound in southern Ecuador at elevations of 1800 to 2000 meters as a mini miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the blackish petiole and blooms in the summer and fall on a slender, erect, 1. 2" to 2. 4" [3 to 6 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising