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ORIGIN: Found in Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Moluccas, Sulawesi and the Philippines in lowland forests at elevations of 20 to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, hot to cool growing, epiphytic species occurring on the upper branches and forks of tall trees with very stout, erect, egg shaped to subcylindrical, swollen, fleshy, 2 to 3 noded below the leaves, green aging to green/red brown with white longitudinal striped pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few scarious sheaths and carrying 2 [rarely 3] apical, elliptical to oblong, green, thick, leathery, obtuse to rounded and unequally bilobed apically, gradually narrowing below into the narrowly clasping base leaves that blooms in the summer on a short to 6 [to 15 cm], axillary, suberect to spreading, purple to brown pubescent, bracteate, racemose, creamy white inflorescence arising from near the apex of the mature pseudobulb with a basal, triangular bract and 5 to 7 oblong, white, hairless bracts below the flowers and a reflexed, concave, oblong-elliptic, apiculate, hairless floral bract and carrying the the many [to 15] fragrant flowers all crowded onto the apical half.
FLOWER SIZE: To about 1/2 inch [to about 1.4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).