HABITAT: Mexico, Estado Nayarit, near Chapalilla, South of Tepic, Mexican Highway 15, km 18/19, 1300 m, Holotype collected by Renate Ehlers EM 041501, 18. 2. 2004. The plants grow on oak trees with T. pseudosetacea Ehlers, T. makoyana Baker, T. ionantha Planchon and T. achyrostachys E. Morren. —SeeEhlers 2011a
