Vanda chlorosantha (Garay) Christenson 1992 SECTION Cristatae

Photo by © E. Lucke and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Greenish Flowered Vanda

Flower Size

Found in Bhutan without locational data as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a monopodial, erect, stem enveloped by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying arcuately spreading, linear-oblong, channeled, unevenly erose apically leaves that blooms on an axillary, shorter than the leaves, laxly 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute floral bracts.

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so use with caution

Synonyms Trudelia chlorosantha Garay 1986

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988 as Trudelia chlorosantha; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002

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