Flea market SF - September 2012
Partial shade, cold to cool temperature, flower spring-summer.
This is a cloud forest, small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 2400 to 2800 meters that is endemic to Bolivia on mossy branches with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic blade, longly petiolate, subacute leaf that is cuneate below into the channeled petiole and blooms in the spring till summer on a slender, erect to suberect, 2 3/4" to 4 3/4" [7 to 12 cm] long inflorescence that has a bract below the middle and a tubular floral bract and has single, showy flower that is held above the leaves.
