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ORIGIN: Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela and southern Brazil as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte on trees in humid forests or as a terrestrial on cliffs in rocky soil at 1000 to 3000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela and southern Brazil as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte on trees in humid forests or as a terrestrial on cliffs in rocky soil at 1000 to 3000 meters in altitude with obliquely ovoid, pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, elliptic or broadly lanceolate, acute or acuminate, plicate, gradually narrows below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf, it also requires a wire basket as the showy, vanilla scented, waxy flowers descend from the bottom on a pendulous, 10 [to 25 cm] long, 5 to 9 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with several distichous, inflated sheaths occurring in the summer. They like semi deep shade and mine perform well in sphagnum moss with some wood chips and charcoal added.
FLOWER SIZE: 5 or more inches [12.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).