Full shade, intermediary to hot temperature, flower all year
Found in Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El
Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador as a
miniature, caespitose, hot to warm growing, epiphytic species found in
lower rain forests at elevations of 300 to 800 meters with stems
carrying a single, apical, oblanceolate to elliptic-oblong, obtuse or
acute, coriaceous, bright lustrous green, obtuse, conduplicate below
into the base leaves that blooms successively on a apical, short to 3"
[7.5 cm], single flowered inflorescence that is close to the length of
the leaf, mostly in the summer.
