Vanda furva (L.) Lindl. 1833 SECTION Deltoglossae

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Common Name The Forked? Dark? Confused? Vanda

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in The Moluccas as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte that blooms in the late summer, fall and winter on an axillary, medium to long, to 12 flowered inflorescence.

CAUTION HERE!!!!!! The Photo above is the same as in Orchid Digest Vol 79 #2 Motes 2015 but Vanda furva Rhumphius is probably an "unknowable species as Rumphius' original diagram of Epidendrum furva is too stylized to be attributable to any particular species, and the language used in the description is too archaic to be translated into modern botanical concepts" O'Byrne [Pers Comm.].

Synonyms Aerides bicolor Reinw. ex Lindl. 1853; Cymbidium furvum (L.) Willd. 1805; *Epidendrum furvum L. 1763; Vanda crassiloba Teijsm. & Binn. 1866;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing not = V limbata; 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 lindenii; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988 as V crassilabia sic; Orchid Digest Vol 79#1 2015 photo hmm; Orchid Digest Vol 79 #2 motes 2015 photo fide

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