Dendrobium trantuanii Perner & Dang 2003 Section Breviflores Hook.f Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Lip Detail Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Plant and Flower Photos courtesy of Nik Fahmi and his Vortex Orchids Website.

Common Name Tran Anh's Dendrobium [Original Vietnamese collector of species current]

Flower Size 1 3/4" to 2" [4 to 5 cm]

Found in NW Vietnam in rather dry broad leaf evergreen forests at elevations of 800 to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with flat, strongly compressed, 4 to 12 internoded pseudobulbs enveloped basally by scarious sheaths and carrying 3 to 8, oblong, broadly acute leaves that narrow towards the base that blooms with 1 to 4, in the spring on leafless pseudobulbs from the lateral nodes with a 1/10" to 3/8" [2 to 8 mm] long, 1 to 3 flowered, green inflorescence with ovate, broad based floral bracts with an acute apex and carrying large, thick, waxy, glossy, wide opening flowers..

Synonyms Dendrobium tuananhii Aver. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 2 2004 photo The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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