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ORIGIN: Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, this large sized species is a robust, caespitose, fan-shaped, cool to warm growing lithophyte, terrestrial or epiphyte with no pseudobulbs of open, fully exposed, grassy slopes, cliff faces, or humus soil at elevations of 800 to 2500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: This large sized species is a robust, caespitose, fan-shaped, cool to warm growing lithophyte, terrestrial or epiphyte with no pseudobulbs and imbricate, conduplicate leaf-bearing sheaths carrying ligulate, leathery, distichous, 3 to 4 pairs, basally imbricating, glabrous, dark green conduplicate below into the base leaves and blooms from winter through summer with long lasting, simultaneously opening flowers on a sub-erect, terminal, to 2' [60 cm] long, 3 to 6 flowered, racemose inflorescence that is just longer than the leaves and has a large leafy basal bract and several prominent tubular bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 1/2 feet with the long petals [to 75 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).