It is native to Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru and Venezuela.

[2] Richard Spruce, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its small flowers (parviflora in Latin), though he did not specifically state their size.

Its hairy petioles are 1 millimeter long, with a groove on their upper side.

Its flowers occur on solitary peduncles that are 1-2 millimeters long and have a pair of bracts.

The sepals have reddish-brown hairs on their outer surfaces and are hairless on the inside.