October 20, 2012; Hanging gardens
shade, cold to cool
Found in Ecuador and Peru in cloud forests at elevations of 1450
meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender,
erect to suberect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 sheaths and with
a bract below the middle and carrying a single, rigid, coriaceous,
ovate, acute leaf with the base narrowly cordate to obtuse that blooms
on a fascile of sucessively single flowered, 2" [5 cm] long
inflorescence arising from a reclining spathe.
