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Found in El Oro province of Ecuador in the transition between the semi-deciduous premontane and evergreen premontane forests at elevations around 400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with terete ramicauls enveloped by imbricate, chartaceous, persistent sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, fleshy, green to green with purple spots, ovate in youth becoming oblong-ovate at maturity, obtuse, emarginate, & mucronate apically, abruptly attenuate below into the short, petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on an erect, arising from the annulus of the stem, arising through a conduplicate, persistent, chartaceous spathe, peduncle short to .4" [1 cm] long, provided with 2 to 3, tubular, imbricate, chartaceous, persistent bracts, rachis flexuous, progressively elongating over time, up to 4" [10 cm] long, a successively single, many flowered inflorescence with acute, persistent, scarious, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying small, extended, stellate flowers.