Shape | Upright. |
Landscape | As a potted indoor plant. |
Cultivation | Keep plants moistened in a humid environment. Let soil dry between waterings. Do not expose to dry cold. |
Habitat | Among limestone rocks in heavily forested areas. |
Bark/Stem Description | Smooth glaborous stems. |
Leaf Description | Lanceolate, smooth and slightly glossy leaves with slightly rounded apices that grow at the base of flowering stems. |
Flower Description | Slipper-type orchid bloom with smooth, waxy and slightly shiny checkered main petals and a cupped slipper petal at the bottom. |
Colour Description | Medium green foliage and dark purplish-brown stems. Blooms vary in colour from pale lilac with purplish-brown spots, pale pastel green to green-yellow with purplish-brown checkered patterns. The slipper portion of the flower is almost always a purplish-brown. |
Texture Description | Smooth, waxy. |