Partial shade, cold to intermediary, flower in autumn and winter
Found in Costa Rica in evergreen forests at 975 meters as a miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with elliptic to egg-shaped, strongly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several pairs of distichous, imbricate, conduplicate leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear-oblong to oblong-elliptic, obliquely bilobed and rounded apically, shiny on top and dull below leaf that is conduplicate belwo and forms a petiole-like stem. This speceis blooms on an axillary, short, few flowered inflorescence with the flowers arising only on one side of the stem and arises on a newly matured pseudobulb..
