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ORIGIN: Found in Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 1400 to 2100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to just cold growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, basally terete, laterally compressed above, erect to prostrate, straight stems carrying 9 to 11, evenly distributed along the stem, alternate, articulate, lanceolate, long-acuminate, minutely apiculate, fleshy-succulent, gray-green above, purple tinged below, margin entire leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, racemose, producing more than one over time, flowering over several years, laxly 3 to 12 per raceme to 50 flowered overall, laterally compressed, straight to slightly sinuous, terete inflorescence with 5 to 8, tubular, acuminate bracts and shorter than the ovary, widely infundibular floral bracts and carrying successively single per racemse, nocturnally fragrant flowers scented of calcium hydrochloride.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).