Dendrobium loddigesii
A small, mat-forming Dendrobium from southern China, Hainan and northern Indochina, with thin pendant stems and fragrant lilac-and-orange flowers that appear on the leafless canes in late winter and spring. It grows on mossy trees and limestone rocks in forests with a wet summer and a cool, dry winter, and that winter rest is what triggers flowering.
Where it grows wild
Humid, mossy mixed and coniferous forests, where it grows on tree trunks and branches, on mossy rocks (often limestone in Guangxi and northern Vietnam) and occasionally on the ground among moss. The stems are pendant or sprawling and form tangled clumps.
The 11 records with an elevation span 350–1550 m, median 675 m. Wikipedia gives 1000–1500 m, which fits the upper part of the measured range only.
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