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ORIGIN: Found in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina as a medium sized epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial that occurs at an elevation of 300 to 3900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A widespread, lowland species that is best grown in cool to warm conditions because the majority of specimens are collected in these areas with moderate shade and high humidity. It has clustered, slender, erect becoming arching stems enveloped below by tubular, verrucose sheaths and above carrying several, disitichous, narrowly linear, obtuse, basally clasping leaves giving rise to a terminal 2 1/4 [to 6 cm] long raceme with palaceous bracts, and several to many tubular, color variable flowers that can occur at any time of the year arising from the apex of the stem and held very close to the leaf.
FLOWER SIZE: To almost 1/2 inch [to almost 1.3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).