Dendrobium transparens

"Dendrobium transparens Wall. is native to India, Nepal and Myanmar. In Nepal, their natural habitat stretches at heights of 700-1800 m. These orchids also occur in Sikkim, Khasi (Khasia) Hills and in Chin Hills in Myanmar. They also grow in the Garhwal region of northern India" 

Dendrobium transparens Wall., Numer. List [Wallich] n. 2008 (1829).

Dendrobium transparens Wall., Photo by José Santos da Costa

its native range is Himalaya to China (Yunnan) and NW. Vietnam.

Latinh Name: 

Dendrobium transparens Wall. 

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Callista transparens (Wall. ex Lindl.) Kuntze

Dendrobium henshallii Rchb.f.

Vietnamese name:

Phi điệp trắng tím, Hoàng Thảo Hoàng Ý Ngọc, Hoàng thảo mờ.

English Name:

The Translucent Dendrobium.

Description: 

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.

Distribution:

Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam (Sơn La, Lai Châu), West Himalaya.

Ecological:

In dense wet forests at elevations of 500 to 2100 m as a medium to large sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring and early summer.

Flower size:

3.8 cm.

Cultivation:

Plant grows in warm to hot temperatures with medium amounts of light. Keep plant moist and fertilize during growth season. During winter reduce watering until new shoots appear. Grow in a well drain mix of sphagnum moss or medium fir bark.

Type:

Wallich, N. [2008], Nepal K000894335 Unknown type material

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- orchidspecies.com

- ipni.org

- powo.science.kew.org

- thuocdongduoc.vn

- orchids.fandom.com

- efloras.org

- travaldo.blogspot.com