October 20, 2012; Hanging gardens
Shade, cold to cool, fall to spring
Found in Colombua and Ecuador at elevations of 1750 to 2400 as a
miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender
ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical,
erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute leaf narrowly cuneate below
into the long, conduplicate petiole that blooms in the fall, winter and
spring on a erect to descending, subcongested, distichous, successively
several flowered, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, racemose inflorecense arising
from low on the ramicaul and with narrowly triangular, oblique,
conduplicate floral bracts.
