!Vanda tessellata (Roxb.) Hook. 1850 SECTION Longicalcarata
Side View Of Flower Photos courtesy of Nik Fahmi and Vortex Orchids
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Common Name The Lattice-Like Paterned Flower Vanda
Flower Size to 2" [5 cm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam India, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, western Himalayas and Myanamar at elevations around 1500 meters as a medium to large sized, warm growing epiphyte with a climbing stem carrying linear, narrow, conduplicate, tridentate apically leaves that blooms on a sub-erect, 6 to 10" [15 to 50 cm] long inflorescence carrying 5 to 12, fragrant, long-lived flowers occuring in the summer, fall and early winter.
Used in the Malayasian Penninsula as a cure-all by drinking the juice from the compressed plant.
Synonyms Aerides tessellatum Wight 1824; Cymbidium allagnata Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. 1832; Cymbidium tessellatum Sw. 1799; Cymbidium tesselloides Roxb. 1832; *Epidendrum tesselatum Roxb. 1795; Epidendrum tesseloides Steud. 1840; Vanda roxburghii R. Br. 1820; Vanda tesselloides Rchb. f. 1864
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as V roxburghii; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 4 1958 Drawing as V roxburgii; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 4 1959 as V roxburghii; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 8 1964 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 6 1978 as V roxburghii; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 6 1978 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 10 1995 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 10 1996 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 5 1999 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 1 2001 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 5 2003 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 8 2003 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 8 2008
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