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ORIGIN: Found as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in wet low montane forests at elevations of sea-level to 750 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in wet low montane forests at elevations of sea-level to 750 meters with close set, compressed, rugose pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by a few, dry sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear-lanceolate conduplicate towards the base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, basal, 3 [7.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence carrying flowers that smell of egg whites. This species is similar to M rufescens but differs in having a pointed, orange lip with a broad, oblong callus and porrect lateral lobes, an oblong midlobe, white, elliptic sepals and petals as well as small verrucose pseudobulbs.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).