1) Orchid 2) Orchidaceous plant 
== Range and morphology == These plants are found from Mexico to southern Brazil, but mostly in the higher regions (2,500-4,000 m ASL) of the Andes of Ecuador and Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. They may be epiphytes, terrestrials or growing as lithophytes on damp rocks. The plants are characterized by an abbreviated to elongate and creeping rhizome t...
genus of about 300 species of tropical American orchids, family Orchidaceae, that have brightly coloured flowers with unusual shapes. Most species ...
Masdevallia is a genus of orchids of epiphytal habit, mostly natives of Central and South America. The flowers of the species are of great beauty, large and showy.
[n] - any of numerous orchids of the genus Masdevallia
noun any of numerous orchids of the genus Masdevallia; tufted evergreen often diminutive plants whose flowers in a remarkable range of colors usually resemble a tricorn with sepals fused at the base to form a tube