Dendrobium moschatum var. cupreum

Dendrobium moschatum var. cupreum is found from western Himalayas, eastern Himalayas, Assam, Bangladesh, lower India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, Hainan China, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in open forests on tree trunks at elevations around 300 to 900 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, arching or pendulous, terete, dark brown with age stems carrying the leaves in the apical half which are narrowly elliptic to oblong-ovate, leathery, acute leaves which blooms in the late spring and early summer on an axillary, pendulous, to 20 cm long, few to several [5 to 10] flowered inflorescence with musk scented flowers that last about a week arising at or near the apex of a leafless cane. Water and fertilizer should be reduced through the winter months and resumed with the onset of new growth in the spring.