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ORIGIN: Found in southern Ecuador and northern Peru in cloud forests at elevations around 2600 to 3150 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to large sized, cold growing epiphyte with a stout, erect, straight, to 40 [to 100 cm] long, occasionally branching rhizome enveloped by 3, loose, long mucronate, sheaths and giving rise to suberect ramicauls enveloped by 2, similar sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, purple beneath, coriaceous, 7 to 9 veined, elliptical, acute to subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a slender, erect, .2 to .24 [5 to 6 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, with 2 inflated, imbricating bracts and an inflated, mucronate floral bract.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).