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ORIGIN: Found from Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Puerto Rico, Leewards, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Cuba as a miniature to small sized, caespitose, cool to hot growing epiphyte or lithophytic species in wet montane forests and piedmont forests at elevations of 40 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A miniature to small sized, caespitose, cool to hot growing epiphyte or lithophytic species in wet montane forests and piedmont forests at elevations of 40 to 2000 meters with a slender, terete ramicaul enveloped basally by a tubular scarious bract and another at the middle and carrying a single, apical, elliptic-lanceolate, attenuate to the short conduplicate petiole, acuminate leaf that blooms on a lateral, short inflorescence subtended with imbricating bracts that holds the fasciculate, tight globular clusters of single, occasionally successive, bilabiate, delicately fragrant flowers close to the leaf base and occurs mostly in the summer. This species is widespread and is the type for the genus as well as this subsection and can be variable in size.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 to 3/4 inch [6 mm to 2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).