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ORIGIN: Found in the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, southern China and Vietnam in semi-deciduous and evergreen forests at elevations of 500 to 2300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte on mossy limestone rocks with fleshy, naked, narrowly cylindric pseudobulbs that are pea-green becoming ash-gray and blackening with age carrying a few, lax, pubescent, basal sheaths and 2 apical, broadly lanceolate, coriaceous to fleshy, smooth, pale green leaves all arising from a subterranean soft rhizome. The 2, towards the apex, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous leaves give rise to a terminal, erect or arching, 6 [15 cm] long, loosely 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence with large, narrowly lanceolate floral bracts and several [2 to 6] fragrant, waxy, slightly nodding flowers that blooms in the spring.
FLOWER SIZE: About 2 inches [about 5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).