Scaphosepalum ophidion - front view, La Planada Nature Reserve, Colombia

Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 1450 to 2500 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect to suberect, very slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute, acuminate leaf that is cuneate below into the slender petiole and blooms in the summer on a subdense, sharply flexuous slender, smooth, erect to lateral, 13 3/4" [12 cm] long, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence.