Papilionanthe hookeriana [Rchb. f.]Schlechter 1915 Photo courtesy of Tropical Orchid Farm of Maui
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Common Name Hooker's Papilionanthe [English Botanist 1800's] - In Malaysia The Kinta Weed - Jimson Weed
Flower Size to more than 2" [5 cm]
A large sized, ranging, monopodial, terrestrial, terete leafed orchid that is warm to hot growing and likes full sun as it is found in open, swampy areas of Vietnam, Thailand, penninsular Malaya, Sumatra, and Borneo near the seacoast in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands in deep peaty soils that submerge annually in freshwater floods at elevations of sealevel to 700 meters with a slender, scrambling, terete, long stem carrying terete, sulcate, mucronate, constricted 3/4" below the apex leaves and blooms in the spring and summer with an axillary, 12" [30 cm] long, sheathed at the base inflorescence that has large bracts with a several [2 to 12], large, showy, long-lived, successively opening flowers.
A poulstice is made with leaves that are heated and applied to sore or rheumatic joints in the Moluccas Islands.
Synonyms Vanda hookeri Hort. 1882, *Vanda hookeriana Rchb.f 1856
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 as Vanda hookeriana; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 4 1959 as Vanda hookeriana; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as Vanda hookeriana Drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Vanda hookeriana; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 as Vanda hookeri photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 6 1978; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 10 1979 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 46 No 6 1982 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 8 1993 photo as Vanda hookeriana; AOS Bulletin No 63 No 11 1994; Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shim & Wood 1994 drawing/photo fide; ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 2 1998 photo; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 10 2005 photo; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide
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