Vanda lamellata Lindley 1838 SECTION Vanda Photo by © Eric Hunt
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Common Name The Thin-Ridged Lip Vanda - In Japan Koto-hisaui-ran - In China Ya Mei Wan Dai Lan
Flower Size 1 1/2" [4 cm]
A medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic orchid from the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Borneo, the Philippines and the Marianas Islands in full sun near the sea on cliffs or coastal beach forests on branches and tree trunks occuring at elevations of sealevel to 300 meters with a short stem enveloped completely by imbricate, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying coriaceous, narrow, recurved, obliquely bidentate apically, strongly keeled underneath leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, 18" [45 cm] long, longer than the leaves, several to many [to 25] flowered inflorescence that can be racemose or rarely paniculate with very fragrant, long-lived, waxy flowers.
Synonyms Vanda amiensis Masam. & Segawa 1934; Vanda clitellaria Rchb.f 1872; Vanda cumingii Lindley ex Paxton 1850; Vanda lamellata f flava Valm & Tiu 1984; Vanda lamellata var boxali [Rchb.f] Rchb.f 1880; Vanda lamellata var calyana [Hort.] Val & Tiu 1984; Vanda lamellata var remediosae Ames & Quis. 1933; Vanda unicolor Steud. 1840; Vanda vidalii Boxall 1877; Vanda yamiensis Masam. & Segawa 1934
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shim & Wood 1994 drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illusttrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide
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Vanda lamellata var boxali [Rchb.f] Rchb.f 1880
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A common Variety of the previous species occuring in the Philippines
Synonyms *Vanda boxallii Rchb.f 1881; Vanda superba Lind. & Rodig. 1887
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 no 8 2001 photo; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 8 2003 photo; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;
Vanda lamellata var remediosae Ames & Quis. 1933
Another color form of the previous species.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;
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