Vanda griffithii Lindl. 1851SECTION Cristatae
Photos by © N. Trudel and P.J. Cribb The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Griffith's Vanda [English Orchid Collector and Director of Calcutta Botanical Gardens 1800's]
Flower Size .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm]
Found in the eastern Himalayas and Bhutan on rocks under bushes at elevations of 1500 to 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing lithophyte with an erect, monopodial stem enveloped by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying weakly curved, oblong, unequally tri-lobed leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, glabrous, [4 to 5 cm] long, laxly 4 flowered inflorescence with ovate to triangular, truncate to obtuse floral bracts and carrying faintly scented flowers
Synonyms Luisia griffithii (Lindl.) Kraenzl. 1893; Trudelia griffithii (Lindl.) Garay 1986
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as Trudelia griffithii; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #11 2015 photo fide;
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