Description:  Found in broadleaf, evergreen, lowland forests and primary montane forests at elevations of 50 to 1200 meters on trees along streams as a large sized epiphyte with slender, subclavate, clustered stems that are almost totally enveloped by leaf sheaths and carrying distichous, linear-lanceolate, obtusely and unequally bilobed apically leaves that flowers in spring though winter on a short to 1 1/2", axillary, 2 to 8 flowered raceme that arises from the nodes at or near the apex of the leafless or leafy stems with waxy, flat, showy, slightly fragrant flowers. Water and fertilizer should be reduced for 2 to 3 months in the winter and resumed only with the onset of new growth in the spring.

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