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ORIGIN: Found in northern Peru in the Cordillera Occidental of the Andes at elevations around 3550 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with somewhat thickened, terete, stems enveloped completely by evanescent sheaths and carrying 1 to 3, one from the apex, the rest from around the middle, unequal in size, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, acute to acuminate, articulate, margin entire leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, erect, without a spathe, occurring only once, pendent, peduncle 1.6 to 2 [4 to 5 cm] long, somewhat laterally compressed, provided with 1 to 2 median bracts, rachis to 2.8 [7 cm] long, somewhat latereally compressed, loosely, successively 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence with 1/2 as long as the ovary, triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, clasping floral bracts and carrying yellow colored, resupinate flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).