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ORIGIN: Found in Colombia and Venezuela at elevations of 2200 to 2600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to just large sized, cold growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, terete,erect, straight stem carrying 13, all along the stems, alternate, articulate, subcoriaceous, evident veined, basal and apical leaves smaller than the middle ones, elliptic, acute to short acuminate, margin entire leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a terminal, without a spathe, occurring only once, peduncle with 3 tubular, acute bracts, paniculate, 6 to 9 branched, each with a basal, narrowly triangular, acuminate bract, somewhat dense, simultaneously to 100 flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, narrowly triangular, acute, amplexicaul, progressively smaller towards the apex floral bracts and carrying resupinate, fragrant, purple flowers with a white lip that turns yellow with age.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).