TYPE: Ecuador. Zamora-Chinchipe: epiphytic in scrub cloud forest east of the pass east of Loja, alt. 2250 m, 22 May 1988, C. Luer, A. Hirtz, W. Flores, A. Andreetta & W. Teague 13607 (holotype, MO; isotype, QCNE, illustration of type, MO; illustration of type).