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ORIGIN: Found at elevations of 100 to 2500 meters in Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, wet forest, hot to cool growing epiphyte that is mat-forming and is the largest in the genus both vegatatively and florally with terete below and laterally compressed above tufted stems carrying a single, apical, linear-lanceolate to narrowly linear-rhombic, acute, erect to arcuate, coriaceous-rigid, leathery, conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaf. It has a single flower arising in the fall through spring on a very short, fasciculate, several flowered, axillary inflorescence arising on a mature ramicaul with papery sheathing bracts, carrying the single flowers at the base of the leaf.
FLOWER SIZE: Less than 1 inch [less than 2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).