Vanda hastifera Rchb. f. 1877
Lip Detail Photos by Word Press Orchid Site
Common Name or Meaning The Lance Carrying Vanda
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Indonesia amd Borneo in mangrove, lowland, coastal and montane forests at [sealevel] 600 to 1200 meters as a large to giant sized, hot growing epiphyte with an elongate stem completely enveloped by imbricate leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying crowded, rather short, ligulate, tridentate early and unequally bilobed in time apically, curved leaves and blooms in the late spring on 1 to 2, axillary, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence with fleshy, fragrant flowers and is often found in full sun
Similar to V gibbsiae but differs in the less fragrant flowers, color and form to the flowers that are not as strong as well as smaller 2" [5cm] wide. The auricles and lower margins to the lip mid-lobe are much hairier and the yellow to cream sepals are blotched willy nilly.
Synonyms Renanthera trichoglottis Ridl. 1896;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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 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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