Vanda aliceae

Vanda aliceae Motes, L.M.Gardiner & D.L.Roberts, Orchid Digest 79(2): 99 (2015).

Vanda aliceae Motes, Photo by Eka Putra Hendra

its native range is Maluku.

Latin Name: 

Vanda aliceae Motes

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

Alice's Vanda (American Dr Motes Daughter current).

Etymology: 

Named for Alice Motes, the first author’s daughter.

Description: 

Plant monopodial epiphyte, 30 cm or more tall, 20-25 cm wide, stem 1.5 cm broad, Leaves glabrous, waxy, sessile, distichous, linear, lingulate, recurved, narrow, 18 x 2.2 cm, shallowly channeled, margins entire, apex unequally praemorse. Inflorescence a lateral, cylindri- cal, porrect raceme, 6-9 flowers, 10-15 cm. Flower light cinnamon red-brown with clear yellow, undulate mar- gins, 5.5 cm vertically, 5.0 cm horizontally. Dorsal sepal clawed, spathulate, cinnamon red with faint striping, margins clear yellow, undulate, 2.6-1.1 cm. Lateral se- pals clawed, spathulate, cinnamon red with faint tessel- lations, margins pale yellow, undulate, 2.5-1.3 cm. Petals clawed, spathulate, slightly reflexed, barred light cinna- mon red with faint spotting near base, margins pale yel- low, undulate, 2.5-1.1 cm. Labellum white marked with red purple and pale cinnamon red, 3 lobed, attached to a short column foot. Midlobe white with four thin red purple longitudinal stripes, 1.4 cm long, 1.3 cm broad at lobules, 0.3 cm broad at middle and 0.5 cm broad at apex, apex thickened with two vertical calli and a pale cinnamon red dorsal chin, midlobe adorned with two short, curved, hirsute lobules, 0.3-0.1 cm, mid-section of midlobe in front of lobules also pubescent at margins. Side lobes rhomboid, white externally, faintly striped red purple internally. Spur white with distal half pale cinnamon red, long, narrow, tubular, held at 90° angle to lip, recurving slightly downward at distal end, two small white calli at entrance. Column white with cinna- mon red base, cylindrical, thickened at apex 0.8-0.4 cm. stigma 0.3-0.2 cm, anther cap white 0.3-0.2 cm. Pollinia 2, spherical, stiped, 0.2-0.1 cm. Capsule 9 cm in length.

Distribution:

Maluku. Bacan Island, North Moluccas (also re- ported from Halmahera, Motes personal observation 2013).

Ecological:

As a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the late fall and early winter.

Flower size:

5.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Typus:

Collector Team:

Motes 1

Collection Date:

Dec 2013

Type Herbaria:

holotype FTG

Distribution Of Types:

Maluku (Malesia, Asia-Tropical)

Type Remarks:

cult.

Motes, L. M. Gardiner & D. L. Roberts sp. nov. Type: Motes 1, cult., December 2013 (holotype FTG!)

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/77147193-1

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77147193-1

- http://www.orchidspecies.com/vanaliciae.htm.

- Motes, Martin & Gardiner, Lauren & Roberts, David. (2015). Vanda section Dactylolobatae: a summary, two new species, and a key to identification. Orchid Digest. 98-104.