Holcoglossum subulifolium (Rchb. f.) Christenson 1987 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

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Common Name The Terete-Leafed Holcoglossum

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

Found in Vietnam and Hainan China in primary montane forests at elevations around 1000 to 1600 meters where it is a small to medium sized, cool to warm growing, monopodial epiphyte with a pendant stem carrying terete, pendant leaves that blooms with an arching to pendant, branching, 30" [75 cm] long inflorescence carries numerous [10 to 15] thinly textured, crystalline white 1 1/2" blooms occuring in the spring and summer. .

Synonyms Vanda subulifolia Rchb. f. 1886; Vanda watsonii Rolfe 1905

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as Vanda watsonii drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 12 1995; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997