Caruncle Bearing Lepanthes

Found in Risaralda and Choco departments of Colombia at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, suberect to horizontal ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 8, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, spreading to horizontal, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, satiny green above, elliptical-ovate, subacute, broadly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a filiform, congested, .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long, including the .48 to .72" [1.2 to 1.7 cm] long peduncle, successively few, many flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf.