Brachionidium imperiale at distance, full plant

Found in west central Colombia and Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2000 to 2600 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial on roadbanks or occasional epiphyte in shrubs with a ascending to erect rhizome enveloped by 2 to 3 distant, mucronate, tubular sheaths and giving rise to suberect ramicauls enveloped by 2, similar, imbricating tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, multiveined, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf.. more