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Orchid Species: Vanda hastifera
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Vanda hastifera is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1876.
ORIGIN: Found in Indonesia and Borneo in mangrove, lowland, coastal and montane forests at [sea-level] 600 to 1200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large to giant sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an elongate stem completely enveloped by imbricate leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying crowded, rather short, ligulate, tridentate early and unequally bilobed in time apically, curved leaves and blooms in the late spring on 1 to 2, axillary, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence with fleshy, fragrant flowers and is often found in full sun
Similar to V gibbsiae but differs in the less fragrant flowers, color and form that are not as strong as well as smaller 2" [5cm] wide flowers. The auricles and lower margins to the lip mid-lobe are much hairier and the yellow to cream sepals are blotched willy nilly.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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