!Cottonia peduncularis (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1857 Photo by © India Mike.com

Common Name or Meaning The Pedunculate Cottonia

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in India and Sri Lanka as a large to giant sized, hot growing epiphyte with elongate stems carrying many, rather leathery, linear, obtuse, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, to 5' [to 150 cm] long, usually sparsely branched, densely racemose towards the apex inflorescxence with successive, foul smelling, long-lived flowers

Synonyms Cottonia macrostachya Wight 1851 ; Vanda bicaudata Thwaites 1864; *Vanda peduncularis Lindl 1833

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as C macrostachya; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing/photo fide;

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