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ORIGIN: Found in southern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 1200 to 2200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ellipsoid-ovoid, strongly compressed, ancipitous, green or suffused with brown pseudobulbs enveloped basally by foliaceous leafs sheaths that are the length of the single, apical, linear-lanceolate, subpetiolate, acuminate, thin-textured leaf with the midvein keeled on the back that blooms in the fall in Peru on an erect, fractiflex, paniculate, short branched, congested, to 12 [30 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, aciculate, papery floral bracts and carrying a non-resupinate flower held well above the leaf and arising on mature pseudobulbs. This species can be distinguished by having a fractiflex, single flowered, paniculate inflorescence, a large transverse callus and parallel, incurved, horn-like labellum sidelobes.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).