Dendrobium parishii
An epiphytic Dendrobium of the monsoon forests of the eastern Himalaya, southern China and Indochina. It produces fragrant pink-purple flowers along its canes, which are often leafless by flowering time. The climate there has a hot, very wet summer and a cool, bright, nearly rainless winter, and the orchid's flowering depends on getting that dry, cool rest. Sources specific to this species are thin, so treat the numbers here as regional estimates.
Where it grows wild
Wikipedia lists it as an epiphyte. No detailed field description was available in the sources consulted. In its range, epiphytic Dendrobium of this kind grow on trunks and branches in seasonally dry deciduous and mixed evergreen forest, where the canopy thins in the dry season and light increases.
No reliable elevation data. The two climate points used here (Manipur and Chiang Mai) have grid elevations of about 760–870 m. Lowland and hill forest of roughly 300–1,500 m is a reasonable but unconfirmed guess.
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