Found in southeastern Madagascar in coastal forests at elevations of 20 to 500 meters as a hot growing epiphyte with a creeping stem carrying 2 ranked, oblong-lanceolate, basally folded leaves a that blooms in the summer on a peduncle half enveloped by 3 to 4 sheaths, .6 to 1.8" [1.5 to 4.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter than the ovary floral bract and carrying a white flower