Vanda suavis Lindl. 1848 SECTION Deltoglossa
Photo by Jean Claude George
Photo by Hugo Mossner and his HM Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo courtesy of Oak Hill Gardens
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Common Name The Soft Vanda
Flower Size 2 to 3" [5 to 7 cm]
Found in central and eastern Java as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrrestrial with long, erect stems carrying curved, ligulate, imbricate, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms on an axillary, erect to suberect, 2 to 3" [5 to 7 cm] long, shorter than the leaves, 15 or more flowered inflorescence with large, fragrant, waxy, long-lived, color variable flowers occuring in the fall and winter.
V suavis, which hails from central and eastern Java has an inflorescence with 15 or more flowers, narrower and longer sepals and petals and the apical lobules of the lip are turned abruptly downwards and are paler than the rest of the midlobe. Then there is the similar Vanda tricolor from west Java which has an inflorescence with 6 to 9 flowers, the sepals and petals being different in width and are shorter, the side lobules being erect, and they and the midlobe are evenly colored.
Synonyms Vanda tricolor Hook f 1849; Vanda tricolor var. formosa F.Buyss. 1878; Vanda tricolor var suavis [Lindley] Rchb.f 1864; Vanda tricolor var. superba F.Buyss. 1878
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as V tricolor var suavis; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Digest Vol 46 No 4 1982 photo fide as V tricolor var suavis; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 as V tricolor var suavis photo fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 as V tricolor var suavis photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 61 #2 1997 as V tricolor var suavis photo fide; Vandas Motes 1997 as V tricolor var suavis photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 65 #1 2001 as V tricolor var suavis photo fide; AOS AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 10 2008 as V tricolor var suavis photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #5 2016 as V tricolr var suavis photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #1 2019 as V tricolor var suavis photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #9 2019 as V tricolor var suavis photo fide;
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