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ORIGIN: Found in southern Ecuador at elevations around 2600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with cane-like, terete, arising from the apical internodes of the previous stem, thin, erect, straight stem carrying about 8, all along the stem, spreading, slightly arching, alternate, articulate, subcoriaceous, linear-lanceolate, rounded apically, bilobed, margin entire leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, occurring only once, racemose, peduncle very short, terete, thin, naked, rachis hidden by the flowers sub-umbelliform, arching, successively from the base of the rachis upwards to eventually being simultaneously 22 flowered inflorescence with about half as long as the ovary, narrowly triangular, acuminate, amplexicaul floral bracts and carrying resupinate flowers that are spirally arranged around the rachis and are reddish brown at the base and the apicaes of the tepals are lustrous orange, the column is greenish orange at the base and reddish ppurple towards teh apex and the keels of the lip are orange.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).