SF, Feb 2012, orquideas del valle
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador in premontane forests at elevations of 300 to 1600 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with oblong, laterally compressed pseudobulbs partially enveloped by several, distichous, imbricating, conduplicate, lower leafless and upper leafbearing sheaths carrying a single, apical, linear lanceolate leaf that is conduplicate at the base which blooms in the summer on a short, basal, somewhat pendulous, 1 3/5" to 2 3/4" [4 to 7 cm] long, 1 to 4 flowered racemose inflorescence arising on a newly matured growth.
