Maxillaria ecuadorensis

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane cloud forests at elevations of 500 to 2700 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep slopes with flattened pseudobulbs enveloped completely by distichous, scarious sheaths with 2 to 3 being leaf bearing as narrowly elliptic, acute leaves narrowing basally into the conduplicate petiole that blooms in the summer and fall in situ on an erect, 12" [30 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped completely by inflated, acute bracts and holding the flower at mid leaf.