It has a relatively large rhizome from which many fine rootlets covered in dark reddish-brown scales grow.
It is known to grow as an epiphyte on Platypodium elegans, Ceiba pentandra, Tabebuia guayacan, Anacardium excelsum,[REF] Socratea exorrhiza, Marila laxiflora and Perebea xanthochyma [REF].