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ORIGIN: Found in Cusco Department of Peru in montane forests at elevations around 3883 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with pendent, simple, cane-like, laterally compressed, ancipitose stems basally enveloped by long, tubilar, non-foliaceous, scarious sheaths and carrying 9, all along the stem, held parallel to the stem, partly imbricate, similar in size and shape, green, adaxial side lustrous, abaxial side glaucous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, margin entire, slightly revolute leaves that blooms in the winter without a psathe, terminal, racemose, pendent, peduncle to .8 [2 cm] long, laterally compressed, thin, 1 to 3 bracted near the base, rachis to 4.8 [12 cm] long, laterally compressed, successively to 20 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary, lanceolate, acuminate, embracing, greenish brown floral bracts and carrying resupinate, pale green sepals and petals that are slightly tinged reddish brown.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).