October 20, 2012; Hanging gardens
Full shade, cool, fall
Found in Cauca, southern Colombia as a medium sized, caespitose, cool
growing epiphyte at elevations around 1800 meters with an erect,
slender ramicaul with 1 to 2 basal tubular sheaths and a larger one
above carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous,
long-petiolate, elliptical, acute leaf that is cuneate below to the
conduplicate petiole that blooms from high on the ramicaul in the fall
on an erect, racemose, subcongested, distichous, successively many
flowered, to 16" [to 40 cm] long inflorescence with several conspicuos,
oblong triangular, oblique, conduplicate floral bracts with large
flowers held at mid-leaf.
