This species is endemic to Brazil.

[1][2] It was described in 1999 by Elton Martinez Carvalho Leme and George Sidney Baracho.

[3] The species occurs near Itamaraju in the state of Bahia in the north-east of the country.

Plant material was originally collected in 1986, and subsequently plants have been cultivated and produced flowers.

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