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ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica in wet forests at elevations of 1600 to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, erect, laterally compressed near the apex stems and carrying 2 to 4, all along the apical half of the stem, distichous, subcoriaceous, narrowly oblong, unequally bilobed, margin entire, articulate below into the base leaves that blooms in the later spring through early fall on a terminal, simple, racemose, occurring only once, distichous, erect, flexuous, laterally compressed, ancipitose, 3.6 to 7.2 [9 to 18 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence arising on a mature growth, with 1 to 5, bracts the same as the longer than the ovary, acuminate, conduplicate, arched inward floral bracts and carrying 4 to 7, simultaneously opening, non-resupinate, secund, nocturnally sweet, grease-like fragrant, green somewhat tinged purple flowers with the column and the keel of the lip green.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).