Vandopsis lissochiloides (Gaudich) Pfitzer 1889 Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Plant in situ as Terrestrial New Guinea
Plant in situ as lithophyte New Guinea Photos courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, Dr. E.F. de Vogel Andre Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III
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Common Name The Lissochilus-Like Vanda [An orchid Genus]
Flower Size to 3" [7 cm]
This is a giant sized, lithophytic or terrestrial, monopodial orchid found in Thailand to Indonesia and the Phillipines at elevations of sea level to 1100 meters as a warm to hot growing orchid found on the edges of evergreen jungle with an elongated leafy stem carrying distichous, sword-shaped, coriaceous, conduplicate, clasping basally leaves that blooms mostly in the spring and summer on an erect, 8' [240 cm] long, subterminal inflorescence with many [12 to 30] fragrant long-lasting flowers.
Synonyms *Fieldia lissochiloides Gaudich. 1829; Grammatophyllum pantherinum Zipp. ex Blume 1849; Stauropsis batemanni G. Nicholson 1886; Stauropsis lissochiloides (Lindl.) Pfitzer 1882; Vanda batemanni Lindl. 1846; Vanda lissochiloides Lindl. 1833
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Fieldia lissochiloides; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 8 2005 photo; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V 2008
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