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ORIGIN: Found from Florida, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil as a caespitose, medium sized, hot to cool growing, bifoliate epiphyte occurring at elevations of sea-level to 1200 meters in tropical rainforests on exposed tree trunks.
DESCRIPTION: A caespitose, medium sized, hot to cool growing, bifoliate epiphyte occurring at elevations of sea-level to 1200 meters in tropical rainforests on exposed tree trunks with cylindric, slightly laterally compressed pseudobulbs subtended by foliaceous bracts and carrying elliptic-oblong, coriaceous, carinate abaxially leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on an arcuate to pendant, 8 to 10 [15 to 25 cm] long, many [12] flowered inflorescence arising from the basal axils of a newly mature pseudobulb and carrying fragrant, long-lasting flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/2 wide and 6 long inches [3.75 by 15 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).