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Vanda testacea

Vanda testacea
Photo: sunoochi from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte, Perennial, Orchid
Native range
Indian Subcontinent to Thailand
Climate
wet tropical

About

Vanda testacea is a species of orchid occurring from the Indian subcontinent to Indochina at the elevations of 500 to 2000 meters. It is an epiphytic perennial. It flowers in 6–20 flowered racemes; flowers range in size from 1 to 1.5 cm. Flowers are yellow with a blue lip.

Other Vanda plants

Vanda miniata · Vanda ampullacea · Vanda bensonii · Vanda christensoniana · Blue orchid · Vanda coerulescens · Vanda cristata · Vanda curvifolia · Vanda denisoniana · Vanda dives · Vanda falcata subsp. richardsiana · Samurai Orchid

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vanda testacea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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