TYPE: Ecuador. Zamora-Chinchipe: near The Tambo, 1800 m, Nov. 1993, flowered in cultivation in the collection of Ecuagenera at Gualaceo, accesión No. 002293, 14 Oct. 2009, H. Medina 72 (holotype, QCNE; illustration of type; photo of the flower from the plant that served as the holotype).