Provenance: Pacifica, septembre 2009
Partial shade, cold to intermediary temperature, flower in summer to early fall
Found in Panama, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador as a small sized, warm to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte from wet cool cloud forests at altitudes of 300 to 3200 meters with the ramicaul concealed by 4 to 8, large, compressed scarious, tubular, imbricate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic-ovate, minutely bidentate, broadly cuneate to rounded base contacted into the twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms on a terminal, 2" [5 cm] long, successively single flowered, fasciculate inflorescence held in a fascile, with a obovate, obtuse, inflated floral bract holding the flowers above and behind the leaf and has sheathed bracts occuring in the summer and early fall.
Partial shade, cold to intermediary temperature, flower in summer to early fall
Found in Panama, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador as a small sized, warm to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte from wet cool cloud forests at altitudes of 300 to 3200 meters with the ramicaul concealed by 4 to 8, large, compressed scarious, tubular, imbricate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic-ovate, minutely bidentate, broadly cuneate to rounded base contacted into the twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms on a terminal, 2" [5 cm] long, successively single flowered, fasciculate inflorescence held in a fascile, with a obovate, obtuse, inflated floral bract holding the flowers above and behind the leaf and has sheathed bracts occuring in the summer and early fall.
