Vanda lamellata Lindley 1838 SECTION Vanda Photo by © Eric Hunt

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Common Name The Thin-Ridged Lip Vanda

Flower Size 1 1/2" [4 cm]

A medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic orchid from Borneo and the Philippines 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 envelpoped completely by imbricate, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying coriaceous, narrow, recurved, obliquely bidentate apically, strongly keeled underneath leaves that blooms 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 occuring in the fall and winter.

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 ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Borneo Chan, Shim, Lamb & Wood 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;

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Vanda lamellata var boxali [Rchb.f] Rchb.f 1880 SECTION Vanda Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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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; 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. 1933SECTION Vanda Photo By Lourens Grobler

Another color form of the previous species.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;