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ORIGIN: This species is found as a small sized, caespitose, creeping, unifoliate epiphyte as well as a lithophyte at 900-3000 meters in wet montane forests.
DESCRIPTION: This species is found as a small sized, caespitose, creeping, unifoliate epiphyte as well as a lithophyte at 900-3000 meters in wet montane forests with an elongate, creeping, sheathed rhizome with widely separated ovate, flattened, rugose pseudobulbs subtended by several, imbricating, distichous, scarious sheaths and carrying a single apical, narrowly elliptic, coriaceous, gradually narrows to the conduplicate, clasping base leaf with an obtuse apex that can bloom at most any time of the year on several from one pseudobulb, erect, basal, [2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and enveloped by distichous sheaths with solitary flowers held at leaf height. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela as a warm to cold growing epiphyte.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/8 inch [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).