Shade, cool to intermediary temperature, flower in spring
Found in Colombia as a warm to cool growing, small sized, caespitose epiphyte from altitudes of 1200 to 1500 meters with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, plicate, elliptical, subacute leaf that is cuneate below to the long, channeled petiole that blooms on a lateral, to 12' [30 cm] long, racemose, successively several to many flowered inflorescence with severa, conspicuous, triangular, oblique, conduplicate floral bracts arising from low down on the ramicaul with a single flower at a time and held at leaf height. This species is easily distinguish from others by its plicate leaf, a smmoth erect inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, a large bracted disticuous raceme and a greenish white synsepal spotted with purple through the middle.
