Dendrobium diaphanum Schltr. 1910 SECTION Aporum Photo by © Pieter Brouwer

Another Angle Photo by © Art Vogel

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Common Name The Translucent Dendrobium

Flower Size .6" [1.6 cm]

Found in Sulawesi on forest trees at elevations of 500 to 600 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a flattened, pendulous stem with leaves at the tip of each growth each being linear, acute, smooth leathery leaves that blooms in the late spring on a short, opposite the leaves, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Aporum diaphanum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Baker's 1996;

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