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ORIGIN: Found in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and western Venezuela as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, tufted, epiphyte occurring in cloud forests at altitudes of 1800 to 3300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, tufted, epiphyte occurring in cloud forests at altitudes of 1800 to 3300 meters with blackish, slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblanceolate, suberect, coriaceous, petiolate, rounded at the apex leaf that is cuneate below into the petiole and blooms in the late autumn through early spring with an arcuate, short, slender, to 4 to 5 [12 to 13 cm] long inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, has a bract above the base and a tubular floral bract with a single, fragrant, campanulate, color variable flower that is held at or below leaf height. This plant is a cool to cold growing species that likes high humidity, shade and potted in a chopped mixture of tree fern, fir bark, perlite and sphagnum moss.
FLOWER SIZE: To almost 6 inches [to 16 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).