Vanda gibbsiae Rolfe 1914 SECTION Dactylolobatae Suarez Cootes 2007
Photo by © Nik Fahmi and the Vortex Orchids Website
Photo by © Dowery Orchids Website
Common Name or Meaning Gibb's Vanda [Wife of English Botanist P.E. Gibbs early 1900's]
Flower Size 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] wide
Found in northern Borneo in hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 800 to 1100 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect stems carrying many strap-shaped, arching, conduplicate, basally clasping leaves that blooms on an axillary, shorter than the leaves, few to several flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers
Similar to V hastifera but differs in the more fragrant flowers, better color and form as well as larger from 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] wide flowers. The auricles and lower margins to the lip and mid-lobe are much less hairy and the white and cream sepals are uniformly marked with smaller, more regular reddish-brown spotting.
Synonyms Vanda hastifera var. gibbsiae (Rolfe) P.J.Cribb 1993
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 5 1980 as V gibbsiae photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 3 1983 photo fide as V gibbsiae; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 as V hastifera var gibbsiae photo fide; A Checklist to the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as V hastifera var. gibbsiae; 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; Orchid Digest Vol 79 #2 Motes etal 2016
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