TYPE: Ecuador. Esmeraldas: epiphytic in moss in pluvial forest west of Lita toward San Lorenzo, alt. 220 m, collected by C. H. Dodson, N.H. Williams & M. Whitten, flowered in cultivation at Río Palenque, 15 August 1991, C. Luer illustration 15527, C.H. Dodson 18798 (holotype, MO).