Vanda helvola Blume 1849
Photo by © Art Vogel
Photo by Nik Fahmi and Vortex Orchids
Photo by Peter Maxwell
Flower Close Up Another Color YES
Photo by Dr. E.F. de Vogel , courtesy of Andre Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website and Flora Malesiana Vol V
SLIGHT 
Common Name The Reddish Vanda
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Java, Sumatra, Borneo and western Malaysia in mixed, hill, montane and riverine forests on trees overhanging rivers at elevations around 400 to 1500 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a stout stem carrying curved, leathery, ligulate leaves that are 3 lobed and toothed at the apices and blooms in the summer on an axillary, 4.4" [11 cm] long, rachis fractiflex, 3 to 5 flowered racemose inflorescence with broadly triangular floral bracts and slightly scented, wide open, fleshy, waxy flowers.
SynonymsVanda leucostele Schltr. 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; Orchid Digest Vol 46 No 4 1982 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 46 No 6 1982 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 3 1983 drawing/photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988 as V leucostele; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shim & Wood 1994 drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Vandas Motes 1997 photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 as V leucostele; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo fide matches another color Maxwell exactly; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V 2008; Wild Orchids of the Casmeron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide
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