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ORIGIN: Found in northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, upper Myanmar, China and Vietnam in lower and upper, primary montane forests on steep riverbank slopes on broad leafed trees as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 900 to 2100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, upper Myanmar, China and Vietnam in lower and upper, primary montane forests on steep riverbank slopes on broad leafed trees as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 900 to 2100 meters with 2 [5 cm] between each, oblong-cylindrical, glossy green pseudobulb enveloped basally by a few imbricate sheaths and carrying 2, apical, elliptic-oblong, acute, coriaceous, plicate, gradually narrowing below into the elongate petiolate base leaves and blooms in the winter on an erect, 16 [40 cm] long, 6 to 15 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and enveloped by imbricate sheaths at the juncture of the peduncle and rachis, all carrying simultaneously opening, fragrant flowers occurring in the spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 inches [3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).