Sancho's Pleurothallis

Description:

Miniature sized (flower size 1/4" [5 mm]), warm to cool growing epiphyte with rigid ramicauls subtended by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, lanceolate-elliptic, cordate, coriaceous, fleshy leaf that is conduplicate at the base blooming in the late spring through late winter on a short inflorescence with 1 or 2 simultaneously opening flowers held close to the leaf base.

Habitat:

Found growing on a mossy rock in a stream at 1230 meters. Distribution: Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama in lower to montane rainforests at elevations of 860 to 1500 meters.