Dendroubium trantuanum
Plant is like a miniature sulcatum - strange canes which look as though they have been flattened. 4-6 inches high.
Flowers quite glossy, faint perfume. This year ( I posted pics 13 months ago) has 4 flowers, two on each of two growths.
Note the exposed pollinia - no pollen cap. Like D.hercoglossum. Always makes me smile because one of the distinctions betwen the slipper orchids and all the rest is that the slippers have exposed "naked" as the botanists say, pollinia - that distinction written by a botanist who does not his dendrobes, obviously !±
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