Dendrobium anceps

Dendrobium anceps is found in Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Nicobar Islands and Vietnam in tropical and subtropical valleys, at an elevation of 200 to 1400 meters where it is a small to large sized, pendulous, hot to cool growing epiphyte with flattened, zigzag appearing stems carrying many, fleshy, deciduous, distichous, ovate-lanceolate, sharply pointed, folded tightly leaves that are held in a single plane and blooms in the summer and fall on a short, terminal and lateral, flowered inflorescence with small, single, fleshy, fragrant flowers arising from in between the leaf axils occuring anywhere along the stem but mostly at the apex. This species requires a cool, drier rest in the winter months and a cessation of fertilizer until new growth begins in the spring. It can be mounted on tree-fern or potted in a well draining medium.