Dendrobium polyanthum

Dendrobium polyanthum is found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, western Himalayas, Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in open forests on trees at elevations of 700 to 1800 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 15 to 30 cm long, clustered, pendant, ridged psuedobulbs that are whitish with purple stripes and carry 6, oblong-lanceolate, leathery, deciduous leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring from opposite the leaves on nodes of leafed and leafless stems and are 1.25 cm long and carry a single, fragrant primrose scented , long-lasting flower. Very commonly found as Den. cretaceum, but Den. polyanthum has precedence.