Dendrobium loddigesii

Dendrobium loddigesii (Loddiges' dendrobium) is a miniature to small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial orchid that comes from Laos, Vietnam, and China. It is found in humid, mossy, mixed and coniferous forests at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters, in areas with dry winter and a wet spring and summer. The plant has tufted, pendant, subterete, striated, several-noded, white-sheathed stems carrying alternate, fleshy, oblong, acute leaves. Plicatol B is a phenanthrene that can be isolated from the orchid. The long-lasting, fragrant flowers are found from winter to spring on short to 3' , single flowered inflorescence that arise from the nodes of leafless canes. The flower size is usually about 2' . The petals are lilac in colour, the sepals are purple, and the lips are reddish orange.