Masdevallia mutica

Found in El Choco' and Valle de Cauca Colombia without specific locality at elevations around 2000 to 2300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, acute to subacute, gradually narrowing below into the slender, blackish petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall through spring on an erect, slender, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base and an inflated, tubular, floral bract.