Description
A miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte or sometimes lithophyte from southeastern Brazil, mainly in the tropical coastal forest at elevations of 650 to 1670 meters in warm to cool montane forests on slender moss covered trees or on rocks in sheltered or exposed conditions, with fusiform, closely packed pseudobulbs with a single elliptic, erect, coriaceous, 2 1/2″ leaf with the midrib being a red line, that blooms in spring and again sometimes in the fall on an apical, erect to arching, 1.2″ to 3″ [3 to 7.5 cm] long inflorescence with a single non-fragrant, long-lasting flower.
- The plants offered are potted in 5,5cm pots
- Inflorescences: upright
- Growth habit: upright, sympodial
- Water requirement: once or twice a week
- Climate: cool (ideally between 14 and 24 degrees)
- Fertilizing: Fertilize during active growth with a low concentration.
- Strong, young plant.