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ORIGIN: Found in Bolivia at elevations of 2450 to 3100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with a stout, occasionally branching rhizome enveloped by 3, scurfy, tubular sheaths, mucronate apically and fimbriate along the lower margins and giving rise to stout, suberect ramicauls enveloped by 2, scurfy, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, coriaceous, denticulate above the middle, purple suffused, elliptical, acute, longitudinally 7 veined, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a slender, erect, 1.4 to 2 [3.5 to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, with a loose bract near the middle and another at the base and has an inflated, acute, verrucose floral bract carrying a non-resupinate flower.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 inches [3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).