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ORIGIN: Found in northern Peru at elevations of 1250 to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with cane-like, erect, straight, arising from the base of the previous stem and carrying numerous, all along the apical 2/3's, distichous, articulate, erect-spreading, lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, conduplicate basally leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, racemose, producing successive racemes year after year from among the bracts of the peduncle, arching, 5.6 [14 cm] long including the 5.2 [13 cm] long peduncle enveloped completely by 12 to 14, imbricating, conduplicate, subacute to rounded bracts, rachis, terete, thin, .4 [1 cm] long rachis, simultaneously 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, ovate, subacute floral bracts and carrying resupinate, cream colored flowers with the apices fuschia and the lip with with brown dots.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).