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ORIGIN: Found only in Chiapas state of Mexico on mossy branches within cloud forests at elevations around 1900 to 2200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with ascending to prostrate, erect, or arcuate ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 6 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous-fleshy, ovate-elliptic, acute-acuminate, slightly convex, intense green, apically tridentate leaf, canaliculate and twisted below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on 1 to 2, only one per bloom season, 1/4 to 1/3 the leaf in length, on either side of the leaf, peduncle filiform, terete or somewhat compressed, .24 to.34” [6 to 9 mm] long, single tubular bracted near the middle, rachis subdistichous, somewhat flexuous, subcongested, .4 to.6” [1 to 1.5 mm] long overall, successively 1 at a time, 3 to 7 flowered inflorescence with obliquely infundibular, obtuse, lepanthiform floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.16 inches [4 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).