Dendrobium transparens Wall. 1828 SECTION Dendrobium Photo by © Lourens Grobler.
White Form Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.
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Common Name The Translucent Dendrobium
Flower Size to 1 1/2" [to 3.75 cm]
Found in western Himalayas, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Assam India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, and Myanamar in dense wet forests at elevations of 500 to 2100 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slender, terete, basally swollen, erect to pendulous stems carrying 5 to 7, deciduous, linear-lanceolate, recurved, acute leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on a short, 2 to 3, flowered raceme emerging from hyaline bracts with short lived, fragrant flowers that arise from the large transparent bracts at the nodes of the old leafless canes and needs a slight rest from water and fertilizer in the winter although plants should never become completely dry for extended periods.
Synonyms Callista transparens (Wall.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium henshalli Rchb.f 1855
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006;
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