Partial shade, cool to intermediaire temperature, flower in spring
From Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador in cloud forests as a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte found at 1300 to 3200 meters with erect ramicauls, enveloped basally by 5 dry, acuminate sheaths, carrying a single, apical, elliptical, apically tridentate leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on a terminal, wiry, 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence that has sheathed floral bracts.
