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Full shade, cold to intermediary temperature, flower in winter and spring
A medium to large caespitose epiphytic and sometime lithophytic species found in Ecuador at altitudes of 1700 to 3000 meters with elongate, terete, slener ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular sheaths and another 2, one at the middle and the other below the middle and carrying a single, apical, elliptic, acute, attenuate to the short conduplicate base leaf that blooms on a 1 or more, apical, racemose, 3 to 4" [7.5 to 10 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence arising from a small spathe and holds the successive opening flowers tight against the mid leaf all occuring in the winter and spring.