Trichosalpinx chamaelepanthes

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 750 to 3500 meters on scrubby vegatation in forests with erect, ascending or pendant ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 8, long ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and which develop new ramicauls from the apex of the last and carry a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, broadly elliptical to suborbicular, obtuse leaf that is contracted below into a petiole and blooms on a solitary or losse, 2 to 3 successive flowered, racemose, 1/4 to 3/5" [7 to 15 mm] long inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul. This species has variable color possibilities and although a shade of purple is the most common, pure yellow forms exist.