Flea market SF - September 2012
Partial shade, temperature cool to intermediary, flower in summer.
Found in Ecuador at altitudes of 1200 to 2500 meters as a small
sized, caespitose, epiphytic herb with slender, erect ramicauls
enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect,
coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute to obtuse leaf that is
narrowly cuneate below into the subpetiolate base that has a congested,
many flowered, 12"+ [30 cm+], triangular inflorescence with imbricating
floral bracts and successively opening, single flowers that are held
well above the leaves occuring in the summer.
