Dendrobium transparens Wall. 1828 SECTION Dendrobium
Photo by © Lourens Grobler.
Photo by Patricia Harding.
To EARLY
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, Myanmar and Vietnam in dense wet forests at elevations of 500 to 2100 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cold 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 of the old leafless canes and carrying short lived, fragrant flowers
This species 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 ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as D henshalli; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 drawing good; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as D transparens var album; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Eudendrobium transparens drawing fide; Die Orchideen 2 Auflage Schlechter 1927; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 10 1964 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Beautiful Indian Orchids and How to grow them Ghose 1968; Indian Orchids : A guide to Identification and Culture Vol II Pradhan 1979 drawing/photo fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 Schlechter/Brieger 1981; Orchids of Northwest Himalaya Deva & Naithani 1986 drawing fide; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine & Anderson 1991 Photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1992 photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 3 Tanaka 2007 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Hyan Tun [Mr Myanmar] 2014 Photo fide; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing/photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015; Taiwania 61(4):319-354 November 2016, New Species of Orchids (Orchidaceae) in the Flora of Vietnam Averyanov, Nong, Nguyen and Truong 2016 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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