Phalaenopsis mannii V. green
Found through the eastern Indian Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, southern China and Vietnam at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters in humid broad-leafed evergreen forests with dense undergrowth near streams and rivers on rough barked trees even though there is not much falling rain as a small to just medium sized, warm to cool growing, pendulous epiphytic species with a short stem enveloped by imbricating leaf bases carrying 4 to 5, oblong-oblanceolate to oblong-ligulate, shiny, fleshy, acute, medium green leaves.
They like shady areas with high humidity and a distinctly drier winter rest that helps initiate spring bloom.
flower inflorescence is as long as the leaves with small ovate-lanceolate bracts with mandarin orange scented, waxy, long-lived flowers.
They are best grown slabbed on cork or tree fern because of their pendant growth habit
