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ORIGIN: Found in Antioquia Colombia along the summit of the Cordillera Occidental in wet montane forests on cliffs and roadside slopes at elevations around 2500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Giant sized, Cold growing, monopodial epiphyte with cane-like, much branched, terete stems carrying on the primary and secondary stems numerous, alternate, distichous, ascendant, arising from nearly every internode, 2-6 on tertiary and flowering stems, oblong, unequally bilobed, chartaceous, upper surface rugose, sulcate at the midvein, dark green, 8 veins marked pale green, 4 on each side of the midvein, underside smooth, pale green leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, without a spathe, racemose, pendent, nodding, rachis very short, thin, somewhat laterally compressed, [4 to 5.5 cm] long overall, , laxlysimultaneously 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, triangular, acute, clasping floral bracts and carrying resupinate, nonfragrant, pale yellow flowers with a wine red lip and the calli and the apices of the lip lobes are pale yellow.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 inches [3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).