ORIGIN: Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 1800 to 2350m.
DESCRIPTION: Small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, elliptical, subplicate, acute, cuneate below into the conduplicate, indistinct, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a stout, horizontal to descending, to 22 [to 55 cm] long, loose, successively single, several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying a tubular floral bract. .
FLOWER SIZE: 10 cm 
- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).