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[[File: Nageliella_purpurea.jpg|thumb|''Nageliella purpurea'']]
'''Common Name:''' Purple Nageliella <br />
'''Scented:''' no<br />
'''Light Requirements:''' partial shade<br />
'''Temperature Requirements:''' intermediate to cool<br />
'''Blooms:''' summer<br />
'''Flower Size:''' 0.7cm<br />
'''Synonyms:''' ''Domingoa purpurea'' (Lindl.) Van den Berg & Soto Arenas 2007; ''Hartwegia comosa'' Lindley ex Pfitz. ?; *''Hartwegia purpurea'' Lindley 1837

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras from sea level up to 1500 meters on horizontal, mossy branches of trees on rocky hillsides as a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphytic species is from with slender, erect, pseudobulbous, clavate stems carrying a basally clasping, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or subacute, coriaceous, green leaves that are spotted bronze-purple that blooms in the summer and carries non-fragrant flowers.

They open successively over months and keep pumping out of old dead looking 8" [24 cm] long, flower stems so don't cut them off at the end of the bloom season, because you will find that the old ones will rebloom next year as well.

Best mounted on cork or tree fern and given moderate light and year round moisture.