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ORIGIN: Found from Florida, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Bahamas, Cayman, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Venezuela, Surinam, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina in cool wet, scrubby meadows or shaded ravines, forests bordering mangroves or tree filled depressions in lava flows at elevations of sea-level to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to large sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial or occasional epiphyte with rosulate, long-petiolate, elliptic, cuneate, acute leaves with a reddish purple mid-vein that blooms in the spring and early summer on an erect, congested, racemose, 3.4 to 32 [8.5 to 80 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with lanceolate, as long as the ovary floral bracts and to 20 small, tubular flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/5 inch [0.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).