Crowded Dendrobium is a medium to large sized,
tree-dwelling orchid with drooping, basally narrowed and laterally
flattened pseudobulbs carrying 4 to 6, deciduous, 7.5-10 cm leaves that
blooms in the winter and summer on a 10 cm long, racemose inflorescence
with vanilla scented, transparent flowers arising from lateral nodes of
leafed and leafless canes. Crowded Dendrobium is found in eastern
Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos,
Vietnam and Borneo at elevations of 300-1500 m.
Identification credit: Jambey Tsering
Photographed in Tippi, West Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh.
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