Found in Minas Gerais, Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo, Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul states of Brazil in the southeast Atlantic forest at elevations of 500 to 1800 meters, in shaded and humid places as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, oblong-conical, slightly compressed, ridged pseudobulbs carrying 1 or 2 apical, erect, rigid, oblong to oblong-ligulate, subacute leaves that are deep green above and paler below and blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a basal, 10 to 18" long, paniculate inflorescence with 6 to 10, spreading, subdistichous, slender branches carrying 7 to 20 flowers each, all held in the apical half and having membraneous floral bracts.
