Partial shade, cold to cool temperature, flower in fallFound in Colombian rainforests at elevations around 2550 to 2840 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte weith ascending to erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basallly by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical or narrowly elliptical to narrowly obovate, subacute to obtuseleaf with a cuneate base into the petiole that blooms on an erect, to suberect, loose, successively many [to 16] flowered, racemose, to 2 1/5" [to 5.5 cm] long, slender inflorescence with thin floral bracts. This species has the largest plant and flowers of the genus and also is the species that grows the highest in elevation of the genus.
