• Flat-stem type with wavy edges.
• Body - bushy, hanging.
• Primary-shoots - narrow, flt, with a robust nerve, 8 mm broad above. terete below, vivid green.
• Terminal shoots narrowly oblong, tapering above, c. 8 - 13 cm long 2.5 - 3 cm broad sometimes slightly wavy.
• Flowers - pinkish-white.
• Ovary - oblong. with scales.
• Fruit - greenish-white.

• DISTRIBUTION. Bolivia (La Paz, Cochabamba): epiphyte in evergreen rainforest, at c. 200-250 m altitude.

Very similar to the Brazilian R. oblonga (q.v.) and flat-stemmed forms of the Andean R. micrantha Kunth f. micrantha.

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