Found in Thailand and Vietnam on trees in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters, it is a small plant, that is hot to warm growing, with an erect, stout, stem enveloped by many persistent, distichous, leaf bases carrying distichous, ligulate, conduplicate leaves that are toothed apically and having an erect, conical, 4 to 10" [10 to 24 cm] long, densely flowered inflorescence, blooms mostly in the spring. Needs high humidity and wood slat basket culture with hot to warm temperatures and bright indirect light. This species and A miniatum are very similar and more often than not this species is sold as A miniatum. The two differ in this species having flowers with deep solid orange color and very elliptical petals and sepals as well as a straight lip, A miniatum on the other hand has clearer, more transparent orange flowers with more noticeable veining and the sepals and petals are much narrower and the lip is recurved.