Partial shade, cold to intermediary, flower in summer and automn
Found from Panama to Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela in wet montane forests and piedmont forests on small branches at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters as a variable, miniature sized, warm growing, densly caespitose, epiphytic or lithophytic orchid with a short, slender ramicaul with several tubular, basal sheaths and a single apical, lanceolate, long tapered to the channeled petiole, acute, rigidly coriaceous leaf and blooms on an erect, 3 3/4" [9 cm] long, congested raceme that has a succession [3 to 4] of a few solitary flowers held at or above the leaves occuring in the summer and fall. Bright indirect light, constant air circulation, high humidity but not overly wet and good water quality help with keeping this pretty miniature species that quickly obtains specimen size happy. Mounting is a good way to go but every day watering and bi weekly feeding with half strength fertilizer in sunny weather and less in the darker winter days.
