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ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a large sized, robust, cool to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte from high in the canopy of wet montane forests at elevations of 800 to 1950 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a large sized, robust, cool to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte from high in the canopy of wet montane forests at elevations of 800 to 1950 meters with clustered, ovoid to cylindrical, glossy olive green, laterally compressed, finely sulcate pseudobulbs with a basal sheath and carrying 2 to 4, terminal, thick, glabrous, plicate, oblanceolate, acute, petiolate leaves that blooms on a basal, stout, pendant, to 28 [70 cm] long, several to many [11 to 30] flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by scarious bracts and carries fragrant, heavily waxy, color variable flowers arising on a mature pseudobulb as a new growth appears, and occurring in the late winter and spring. Needs to be in mounted on tree fern or in a hanging basket to accomodate the long pendant inflorescence. Good shade, plenty of water while growing and a short dry rest in the winter will bring about strong spring bloomings.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).