Received: 2024-08-01 (AfriOrchids)
Subgenus: Platyclinis Section: Platyclinis
Temperature: Intermediate, 12 - 30℃ (55 - 85℉)
Light: 5400 - 16100 lux (500 - 1500 foot candles)
Watering: Copious watering in summer is mandatory. The plants must not become dry at this time
Flowers: Blooms mostly in the late summer but is possible at any time of the year on a terminal, very slender, gracefully arching, 16" (40cm) long, densely many-flowered (40) inflorescence with broad, distichous bracts as long as the ovary arising with a new growth and carrying very fragrant flowers arranged in two rows
Notes: Pot with fine bark and perlite or sphagnum moss. Plant prefers dry periods between watering. Reduce watering during the winter
About: Found in peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Borneo as well as New Guinea and the Philippines at elevations of 450 to 2600 meters on horizontal, mossy tree branches, old mangroves or rocks or cliff faces in semi-exposed locations as a medium to large sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte, terrestrial or occasional lithophyte with narrow, conical, pale green pseudobulbs carrying a solitary, apical, lanceolate-elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the 9cm long, petiolate base leaf that blooms mostly in the late summer but is possible at any time of the year on a terminal, very slender, gracefully arching, 40cm long, densely many [40] flowered inflorescence with broad, distichous bracts as long as the ovary arising with a new growth and carrying very fragrant flowers arranged in two rows.