Found in the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myananmar, Thailand, and Vietnam in evergreen lowland forests as a small sized, warm to hot growing epiphyte at elevations of 200 to 2100 meters with remote, spherical to oblong, lightly grooved pseudobulbs with a single apical, oblong to linear oblong, tapering at each end, sub-sessile below , sub-acute and notched apically leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a basal, stout, brown, to 9 1/4" [23 cm] long, lateral to hanging, many flowered inflorescence with many lanceolate, brown bracts and carrying foul smelling flowers with lanceolate floral bracts that are longer than the ovary and all held in a dense cylindric raceme. Best grown on tree fern or cork, kept wet although allowed to dry out and hot to cool conditions with slight shade.