Vanda pumila Hook. f. 1890 SECTION Cristatae
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Jean Claude George
and EARLY 
Common Name The Dwarf Vanda - In Thailand Ueang pak pet - Sa Laeng - In China Ai Wan Dai Lan
Flower Size 1 to 2 1/2" [2.5 to 5 cm]
Found in the lowlands of northern India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, Myanmar, southern China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Sumatra in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of sealevel to 800 meters and in primary montane forests at elevations of 700 to 1400 meters in an area with bright light and a distinct dry season in the winter as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte occuring with a stout, short, arcuate ascending stem carrying arcuate, ligulate, unequally tridentate apically, conduplicate leaves that area articulated to the basal sheathing leaf bases that blooms on an erect, 6" [10 to 20 cm] long, loosely few [1 to 5] flowered inflorescence with heavy textured, small, fragrant flowers occuring in the spring and early summer. Best grown in a wood slat basket with bright light, hot to warm tempeartures, high humidity, and plenty of year round water.
Closely related to V. cristata.
Synonyms Trudelia pumila (Hook. f.) Senghas 1988; Vanda flavobrunnea Rchb.f. 1886
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 drawing fide; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1963 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Indian Orchids: A Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 46 No 6 1982 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988 as Trudelia pumilla; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 as Trudelia pumila; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; Vandas Motes 1997 photo fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 as Trudelia pumila; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002 as Trudelia pumila photo fide; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 1 Tanaka 2003 as Trudelia pumila; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 as Trudelia pumila photo fide; 100 Sikkim Himalayan Orchids Pradhan 2005 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as Trudelia pumila drawing ok; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 as V flavobrunnea photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 as V flavobrunnea; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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