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ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in cloud forests at elevations of 2000 to 2500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial on roadbanks with closely spaced, ovate to pear shaped, laterally compressed, sometimes ancipitous, longitudinally grooved with age, rough skinned because of microscopic pimple-like projections, dull green overall with a purple suffusion apically pseudobulbs enveloped basally by sheaths with one or 2 being leaf-bearing and carrying 2, apical, erect, narrowly lanceolate, sharply sulcate midvein, carinate, obtuse, narrowing and becoming conduplicate towards the base leaves that blooms in the fall, later winter and spring on an erect, axillary, thin, strong, terete, paniculate, shortly downward branched, each 1.4 [3.5 cm] long, well spaced branch has 3 fertile flowers and an occasional aborted flower to 16 [40 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).