A species orchid found in Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia in wet montane forests as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 1180 to 3200 meters with erect ramicauls enveloped completely by several inflated sheaths and carrying a single, apical, broadly elliptical leaf that blooms on a terminal, erect, thread-like, to 5 [12 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence that has sheathed bracts on the ramicaul, occurring in the winter and spring.
