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ORIGIN: Found in Guerrero and Oaxaca state of Mexico within humid pine/oak forests at elevations around 2500 to 3000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with ascending ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, fleshy, narrowly elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, acute, slightly convex, green on top, spotted or completely flushed with purple beneath, apically tridentate, shortly and twisted, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the mid winter, all summer and early fall on 1 to rarely 2 per ramicaul, only one per season per ramicaul, always shorter than the leaf, mostly on the top side of the leaf, minutely verrucose and often purple, peduncle thin, to.24 to.32” [6 to 8 mm] long, single tubular bracted, rachis slightly flexuous, successively 1 at a time, 1 to 13 flowered inflorescence with distichous, obtuse, apiculate, membranseous, translucent floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).