TYPE: Costa Rica. Jucosal. Purchased in Cartago from native. June 30, 1923. “Flowers olive-green, semitranslucent, sepals lightly hairy, petals and column with central purple line; base of lip with three purple striae.” C.H. Lankester 469 (holotype, AMES; detail of type, AMES; illsutration of type, AMES).