Vanda cootesii Motes 2016

Comparison between V helvola [left] and V cootesii [right]

TYPE Drawing

Photos by © Alan Hoffman [V helvola] and © Jim Cootes [V cootesii] /TYPE Drawing by Wes Jergen © Martin Motes

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Common Name Cootes's Vanda [Australian Philippine Orchid specialist current]

Flower Size

Found on Mindano island in the Philippines at elevation around 400 to 1500 meters as a just medium to large sized, hot to cool growing, climbing monopodial epiphyte with an erect, climbing stem carrying glabrous, waxy, sessile, distichous, linear, conduplicate, praemorse apically leaves that blooms in the later spring on an axillary, erect, 5.6 to 6" [14 to 15 cm] long, loosely 7 to 9 flowered inflorescence.

"These Philippine plants are of a much larger size than the Javanese V. helvola, with longer and narrower leaves. The flowers, like the Javanese V. helvola, are brown but tinged with green at the apices of the tepals, whereas in V. helvola the color is uniform without the green apices and underlying stripes found in the Philippine plants. The lip of the Philippine plants is also superficially similar, with prominent appendages at the base of the mid-lobe but unlike the distinctly deltoid lip of V. helvola, the Mindanao plants have a narrowly pandurate mid-lobe darkest at the apex where V. helvola is light green." Martin Motes 2016

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Lankesteriana 16: 341 Motes 2016 Drawing/ photo fide

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