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ORIGIN: Found from Florida, Chiapas state of Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, the Windwards, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil on steep slopes in wet montane forests at elevations of 200 to 2300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped partially below by 2, scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, nerved, abruptly contracted below into the sulcate, petiolate base leaf that blooms on several, fasiculate, 6 [15 cm] long, many [30 to 35], successively flowered inflorescence arising through an annulus and carrying delicately fragrant flowers occurring in the spring and summer.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/8 inch [3 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).