Vanda scandens Holttum 1950 SECTION Dactylolobata Suarez & Cootes 2008
Lip Detail Photo courtesy of Nik Fahmi and His Vortex Orchid Site
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Common Name or Meaning The Climbing Vanda
Flower Size 1.4" to 1.5" [3.5 to 3.8 cm]
Found in Borneo and the Philippines in lowland and montane forests at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters in light shade with an erect, elongate, scandent, stem carrying, to 12, spreading to suberect, linear, unequally bilobed apically, somewhat twisted leaves that are articulate to the sheaths below that blooms at most any time of the year on 1 to 2, axillary, , to 4" [10 cm] long, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence with triangular floral bracts and carrying slightly fragrant flowers
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Chan, Shim, Lamb & Wood 1994; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Australian Orchid Review Vol 73 No 2 2008 photo
