Vanda testacea Rchb. f. 1877 SECTION Longicalcarata Christenson Photo by © Carson Barnes and The Orchid Consultant Website

Inflorescence Photo by © P. A. Mahon

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Common Name The Brick-Red Vanda

Flower Size 3/4" to .8" [1.8 to 2 cm]

Found in Myanamar, Sri Lanka, India, China, Nepal and Bhutan at elevations of 780 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect stem enveloped by leafless and leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying, equitant, oblong, coriaceous, unequally bilobed and tridentate apically leaves that blooms inn the spring on an axillary, stout, 2 to 10" [5 to 25 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence

Often cited as a synonym of V parviflora but differs in the larger plant size and certain floral characterstics.

Synonyms *Aerides testacea Lindl. 1833

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 1 Tanaka 2003; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 2 Tanaka 2004; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 photo fide

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