Shade, intermediary, flower in automn
Found in Panama and Colombia at elevations of 1100 to 1400 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, 2 1/4" [5.6 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence. There is a red [Panama] and yellow [Colombia]form of the flowers the above of course is the yellow one. This species is the only representative of the Sugenus Rubella and is there because of the ciliate lip with a large rounded, concave, pubescent callus at the base and has a short, terete column with an exposed apical anther and stigma as in Sugenus Pleurothallis but it has the plant morphology of a plant in Subgenus Specklinia.
