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ORIGIN: Found as a medium sized, hot growing terrestrial or epiphyte in very wet, tropical forests in central and western Ecuador at elevations of 250 to 700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found as a medium sized, hot growing terrestrial or epiphyte in very wet, tropical forests in central and western Ecuador at elevations of 250 to 700 meters with simple, cane-like, laterally compressed, suberect, tall, slender stems enveloped by tubular sheaths and forming keikis in the apical half carrying several pairs [13 to 18] of distichous, all along the stem, alternate, articulate, narrrowly elliptic, acute, minutely apiculate, basally clasping, margin entire leaves that blooms throughout the year on a terminal, pendant, 12 [30 cm] long, few flowered racemose inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, triangular, acuminate, amplexicaul floral bracts and carrying 3 to 7, simultaneously opening flowers produced successively over the years.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/4 inch [3.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).