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ORIGIN: Found in the Eastern Himalayas, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar as a large sized, monopodial, clump-forming, hot to cool growing epiphyte in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests at elevations of sea-level [600] to 1600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in the Eastern Himalayas, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar as a large sized, monopodial, clump-forming, hot to cool growing epiphyte in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests at elevations of sea-level [600] to 1600 meters that should be treated as the genus Vanda culturally and has a stout, erect to curved stem carrying lorate, narrowly oblong, thickly coriceous, keeled, obliquely truncate, slightly notched into 2 unequal lobes, submucronate apically leaves that will bloom in the fall on a short, 1 [2.5 cm] long, many [10 to 12] flowered umbel with miniature fragrant flowers held close in to the leaf axils, if given partial sun and warm temperatures with regular year round watering and feedings.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 at largest inches [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).