Vanda curvifolia (Lindl.) L.M.Gardiner

Vanda curvifolia (Lindl.) L.M.Gardiner is native to Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, southern China and Vietnam to the south. In Myanmar, this orchid is found along the Attran River in Tenasserim, near Moulmein and near Tavoy. In Thailand, its distribution is basically limited to deciduous forests in the mountains along the Burmese border, in the north and in the west of Thailand.

Vanda curvifolia (Lindl.) L.M.Gardiner, Phytotaxa 61: 49 (2012).

Vanda curvifolia (Lindl.) L.M.Gardiner, Photos by Mathew Jose Mathew

its native range is Arunachal Pradesh to Thailand

Latinh Name: 

Vanda curvifolia (Lindl.) L.M.Gardiner

Synonym Name:

Ascocentrum curvifolium (Lindl.) Schltr.

Ascocentrum curvifolium f. luteum (B.S.Williams) Christenson

Gastrochilus curvifolius (Lindl.) Kuntze

Saccolabium curvifolium Lindl.

Saccolabium curvifolium var. luteum B.S.Williams

Saccolabium miniatum Hook.

Vietnamese name:

Vanđa lá cong

English Name:

The Curved Leafed Ascocentrum, The Curved Leafed Vanda, Vermilion Bottlebrush Vanda.

Thailand name:

Khao kae - Khao khwai.

Description: 

growing epiphyte with short, often bifurcate, stout, woody below stems covered by leaf bases carrying distichous, narrowly linear, strongly decurved, praemorse or bidentate apically leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a crowded, erect, 15 to 25 cm long, axillary, shorter than the leaves, densly many flowered inflorescence.

Distribution:

Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, southern China and Vietnam.

Ecological:

On deciduous trees in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests at elevations of sealevel to 700 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the late spring and summer.

Flower size:

2.8 cm.

Cultivation:

It requires a very luminous position, even some hours of direct sun in the morning, and well aerated, medium-high temperatures, with lowest ones not under the 16 °C, and high humidity, 75-80 %. The waterings must be frequent and abundant during the growth phase, possibly limiting to the only nebulizations in presence of temperatures averagely low, utilizing rain water, demineralized or by reverse osmosis. Frequent fertilizations in spring-summer, at low dosage, with hydrosoluble balanced products specific for orchids, more reduced in autumn-winter.

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