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ORIGIN: I collected a specimen in Jamaica where they grow on fruit trees at elevations of 5 to 1650 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized hot to warm growing epiphyte which can be found in both tropical hemispheres in China, India, Sri Lankha, Nicobar, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, the Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Florida, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Fr. Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina with ovoid, tapered pseudobulbs enveloped by a series of imbricate, scarious bracts with 2 to 4 oblanceolate, acute, leaves that is conduplicate to the tapered, subpetiolate base that flowers on an apical, 1 1/2 to 12 [4 to 30 cm] long, many flowered, paniculate inflorescence subtended by 2 to 3 large, compressed, ancipitous bracts arising on a mature pseudobulb with large, pale, scarious sheaths occurring in spring and summer.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/8 inch [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).