Elleanthus aurantiacus

Found from Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as a small to large sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial or occasional epiphyte on rocky slopes, cliffs and clay banks at elevations of 800 to 3700 meters with a frequently branched stem carrying variable, lanceolate, mucronate, coriaceous, plicate, basally clasping leaves, that can bloom at any time of the year on a terminal, to 4" [to 10 cm] long inflorescence with ovate, lanceolate, acute to abruptly subacuminate, shorter than the flowers floral bracts and carrying a few to many successive flowers.