Shade, cold, flower in spring
Found as an miniature sized, epiphyte or terrestrial on road embankments in Ecuador at elevations around 2200 meters that has an erect, slender, ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, criaceous, subverrucose, narrowly, obovate, subacute leaf that gradually narrows to the elongate petiole, giving rise to a congested, successively few flowered, 5.2 to 8" [13 to 20 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with a few widely spaced bracts and tubular, imbricating floral bracts that blooms in the spring and holds the flowers well above the leaves.
