Vanda falcata

"Vanda falcata Beer, the wind orchid, is a species of orchid found in China, Korea, and Japan. It was formerly classified in the genus Neofinetia."

Vanda falcata Beer, Prakt. Stud. Orchid. 317 (1854).

Vanda falcata Beer, Photo by Giang Le

its native range is China to Temp. E. Asia.

Latin Name: 

Vanda falcata Beer

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Aerides thunbergii Miq.

Angorkis falcata (Thunb.) Kuntze

Angraecopsis falcata (Thunb.) Schltr.

Angraecum falcatum (Thunb.) Lindl.

Finetia falcata (Thunb.) Schltr.

Holcoglossum falcatum (Thunb.) Garay & H.R.Sweet

Limodorum falcatum (Thunb.) Thunb.

Neofinetia falcata (Thunb.) Hu

Nipponorchis falcata (Thunb.) Masam.

Oeceoclades falcata (Thunb.) Lindl.

Oeceoclades lindleyi Regel

Orchis falcata Thunb.

English Name:

The Wind Orchid

Arfak Mountain Bulbophyllum

Chinese name:

风兰 (feng lan) China (N Fujian, S Gansu, SW Hubei, W Jiangxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang).

Kerea name:

풍란 (pungnan) Korea.

Japan name:

風蘭 (fūran) Japan (Honshu from the Kantō region westwards; Shikoku; Kyushu; and Ryukyu Islands.)

Description: 

With a short, monopodial, complanate stem enveloped basally by conduplicate leaf bases carrying coriaceous, distichous, fleshy, conduplicate, linear-falcate leaves that blooms on a racemose, axillary, to 7 cm long, laxly several flowered inflorescence that appears in early summer through fall with nocturnal, fragrant jasmine to vanilla scented flowers.

Distribution:

China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto.

Ecological:

As a cool to cold growing epiphyte, found in areas that have shady summers, and because of the deciduous trees that they grow on, almost full sun in the winter.

Flowering times:

Blooms in early summer through fall.

Flower size:

3.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Plants are grown in pots with sphagnum moss or medium bark in cool to intermediate temperatures. Plants can be mounted on cork or treefern slabs. Grow under bright lights. Water regularly, about once every three days. Reduce watering during the winter to about once a week. They require good air circulation.

Typus:

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/661005-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:661005-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanda_falcata

https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Neofinetia_falcata

 http://www.orchidspecies.com/neofinetiafalcata.htm.