Dendrobium purpureum alba

Dendrobium purpureum is found in the the Moluccas, New Guinea, the Caroline Islands, Fiji and Vanuatu as a small to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte from coastal lowlands to montane forests at elevations of sealevel to 1150 meters with clustered, cylindrical to spindle-shaped, erect, curved or pendulous, grooved with age, slightly swollen basally, yellow green to purple stems that have silvery sheaths carrying several, apical, lanceolate, dark green, deciduous leaves that alternate along the stem in 2 rows and blooms at most any time of the year with spring as the main time on a 2.5 cm long, several to many flowered inflorescence with the semi-closed flowers held in a cluster arising on leafy and leafless stems.