Partial shade, cold or cool temperature, flower in spring and summer
A small sized, tufted, Ecuadorian, Peruvian and Colombian, cold growing, epiphytic or lithophytic species from cloud forests at elevations of 2200 to 3700 meters that has short, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, linear-oblanceolate, coriaceous, keeled and conduplicate below into the channeled base leaves and are pale green with purple spots. This little orchid blooms on a erect, slender, 5 to 7" [12.5 to 17.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a floral bract holding the single flower amid or just above the leaves occuring in the spring and summer.
