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ORIGIN: A very rewarding, medium sized, warm to cool growing species hailing from Nepal, northern India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, Laos and southern China at elevations of 900 to 2000 meters in rain forests, lower and upper montane forests.
DESCRIPTION: A very rewarding, medium sized, warm to cool growing species hailing from Nepal, northern India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, Laos and southern China at elevations of 900 to 2000 meters in rain forests, lower and upper montane forests with close set, conical, lightly grooved pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, 3 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, grooved, petiolate base leaves. It produces basal, slender, pendulous 10 [25 cm] long, somewhat fractiflex rachis, loosely few to many [5 to 12] flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with deciduous floral bracts and waxy, highly perfumed [not so good], cream coloured, simultaneously opening flowers, each reaching about 2 [4-5 cm] across, occurring in the summer.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.6 to 2 inches [4 to 5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).