Vanda gibbsiae Rolfe 1914

Lip Detail Photo by © Nik Fahmi and Vortex Orchids Website

Inflorescence Photo by © Dowery Orchids Website

Common Name or Meaning Gibb's Vanda [Wife of English Botanist P.E. Gibbs early 1900's]

Flower Size 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] wide

Found in northern Borneo in hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 800 to 1100 meters as a medium to large sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect stems carrying manystrap-shaped, arching, conduplicate, basally clasping leaves that blooms on an axillary, shorter than the leaves, few to several flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers

Similar to V hastifera but differs in the more fragrant flowers, better color and form to the flowers as well as larger from 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] wide. The auricles and lower margins to the lip mid-lobe are much less hairy and the white and cream sepals are uniformly marked with smaller, more regular reddish-brown spotting.

Synonyms Vanda hastifera var. gibbsiae (Rolfe) P.J.Cribb 1993

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 5 1980 as V gibbsiae photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 3 1983 photo fide as V gibbsiae; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 as V hastifera var gibbsiae; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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