Vanda parviflora Lindl. 1844 SECTION Longicalcarata Photo by Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Small Flowered Vanda

Flower Size 1/2" to 3/4" [2 to 2.5 cm]

Found in Myanamar and Thailand in dry broad-leafed forests at elevations of 780 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to hot growing, monopodial epiphyte with alternate, linear, recurved leaves blooming in the spring and early summer with a stout peduncle, erect, to 7" [17 cm] long, rather loosely 5 to 20 flowered inflorescence and carries fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Aerides wightianum Lindl. 1824; Aerides wrightianum Lindl. 1832; Vanda vitellina Kraenzl. 1892

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1896 as Vanda vittelina drawing fide; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978;

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