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ORIGIN: A small sized, hot to warm growing, mule ear epiphyte from Venezuela, Brazil, the Guineas, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru in wet montane forest, most often on citrus and avocado trees at elevations of sea-level to 1400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A small sized, hot to warm growing, mule ear epiphyte from Venezuela, Brazil, the Guineas, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru in wet montane forest, most often on citrus and avocado trees at elevations of sea-level to 1400 meters that has elliptic, elliptic oblong, or oblanceolate, cuneate or tapered to the narrow base, acute, thick, leathery, purple speckled, dull green leaves and blooms with a basal, short to 4 [10 cm], arcuate to suberect, few to many, successively flowered, racemose, clustered panicle with longlasting flowers that is shorter or just longer than the leaves arising on a mature growth and occurring in the spring through fall.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).