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October 20, 2012; Hanging gardens
shade, cold to cool,
Found from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as well as Venezuela
in wet montane cloud forests at elevations of 1100 to 3700 meters as a
small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial
along stream banks with erect, elongate, thin, branching, cane-like
stems enveloped by tubular, scarious, foliaceous sheaths and carrying a
few, narrowly elliptic, basally clasping leaves that are minutely erose
towards the apex and gathered towards the apex of the stem that blooms
on a terminal, 1 3/5" [4 cm] long, racemose, seldom branched,
successively few flowered, elongating inflorescence arisng from a mature
stem and occuring at most any time of the year.