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ORIGIN: Found in the southeast Atlantic forest of Brazil as well as Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela in lowland tropical forests, cloud forests and savannahs as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte, in open woodlands and rainforests, or lithophyte on calcareous cliffs up to elevations of 980 to 1700 [3000] meters.
DESCRIPTION: A medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte, in open woodlands and rainforests, or lithophyte on calcareous cliffs up to elevations of 980 to 1700 [3000] meters with slender stems that are leafy towards the apex and are subtended by verrucose leaf sheaths carrying, distichous, deciduous, linear-lanceolate, tapering to a obliquely bilobed apex and blooming in the fall on a terminal or axillary, solitary or fasciculate, sessile inflorescence that is enveloped basally by several conspicuous bracts and suborbicular-ovate to oblong, verrucose floral bracts all occurring after the leaves fall.
FLOWER SIZE: 2/5 inch [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).