This orchid is found in Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Tibet, Hainan and southern China as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte, on moss covered trunks or branches of trees at altitudes of 1100 to 1830 meters with erect, tufted, 7 to 12 nodded, obscurely 4 angled, fusiform or clavate, 12" [30 cm] long stems with each node half covered by a white sheath and carrying 3 to 5, towards the apex, elliptic or ovate, persistent, acute leaves that blooms from the late winter through spring on pendant, 8" [20 cm], cylindrical, densely flowered racemes with scented, short-lived flowers that arise from nodes at or near the apex of the pseudobulb. This species requires a distinct dry rest from water and fertilizer through the winter months and should be resumed with the onset of new growth in the spring.
Plant for sale is flowering size, growing in 100 mm pot.
