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ORIGIN: Found in Loja Ecuador in the extreme south of the country on the border with Peru at elevations of 3300 to 3400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, cold growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, terete, arching pendent stems carrying 10 to 18, all along the apical 2/3’s of the stem, altermnate, articulate, suberect, coriaceous, rigid, unequal in size, the basal and apical leaves are shorter, oblong-lanceolate, rounded, minutely apiculate, margin crenulate leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal, racemose, without a spathe, subglobose, peduncle terete, thick, straight, erect to arching, bright red, a single small, widely triangular, acuminate median bract, rachis thickened, dense, erect, to rarely arching, produced in a fascile around the thickened rachis, simultaneously 30 to 40 flowered inflorescence with very small, widely triangular, acute, amplexicaul floral bracts and carrying resupinate, very fleshy, the segments rigid, hard, brilliant yellow to orange flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 inches [3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).