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ORIGIN: Found in Peru in montane forest at elevations around 2755 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cold growing, monopodial epiphyte with successively branching, arising from the apical nodes of the previous stem, cane-like, terete, thin, progressively shorter stems enveloped in the basal half by 2, tubular, scarious sheaths and carrying 3 to 4, along the apical half of the stem, alternate, suberect, subcoriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, bilobed, minutely apiculate, slightly recurved, margin entire leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal, racemose, compact, subsphaerical, arching-nutant, peduncle terete, thin, short, waithout bracts, rachis tertete, thin, simultaneously 8 to 15 flowered inflorescence with small, less than half the length of the ovary, triangular-lanceolate, acute, amplexicaul floral bracts and carrying resupinate, weakly disagreeably fragrant, yellowish brown flowers with the lip apex pink and the margin darker.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).