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ORIGIN: Found in Durango, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Mexico, Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and possibly Nicaragua in humid to dry oak forests at elevations of 1400 to 2150 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Warm to cold growing epiphyte with erect, terete ramicauls enveloped completely by tubular, obtuse, scarious, carinate, mucronate apically sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, fleshy, oblanceolate to elliptic, round, lightly recurved, emarginate and with a small mucron at the apex, attenuate at the base into a short, canaliculate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a to rarely 2, erect, terete, racemose, 4.8 to 10 [12 to 25 cm] long, very congested, secund, simultaneously 14 to 32 flowered inflorescence arising through a fat, conduplicate, triangular, acute, scarious, carinate annulus near the apex of the ramicaul and has tubular, acute, carinate, shortly apiculate, membraneosu floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).