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Vanda orchid
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Asparagales Family: Orchidaceae Subfamily: Epidendroideae Tribe: Vandeae Subtribe: Sarcanthinae Alliance: Vanda Genus: Vanda
Species
See text Download high resolution version (480x640, 227 KB) From: Digital-picture-gallery. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepaticophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders Base Monocots: Acorus Alismatales Asparagales Dioscoreales Liliales Pandanales Family Petrosaviaceae Commelinids: Arecales Commelinales Poales Zingiberales Family Dasypogonaceae Monocotyledons or monocots are a group of flowering plants usually ranked as a class and once called the Monocotyledoneae. ... Families according to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group Agapanthus Agavaceae Alliaceae Amaryllidaceae Aphyllanthaceae Asparagaceae Asphodelaceae Asteliaceae Blandfordiaceae Boryaceae Doryanthaceae Hemerocallidaceae Hyacinthaceae Hypoxidaceae Iridaceae Ixioliriaceae Lanariaceae Laxmanniaceae Orchidaceae Ruscaceae Tecophilaeaceae Themidaceae Xanthorrhoea Xeronema Asparagales is an order of monocots which includes a number of families of non-woody plants. ... Genera Over 800 See List of Orchidaceae genera. ... Tribes See text The Epidendroideae, or epidendroid orchids, are a subfamily of the orchid family (Orchidaceae). ... In the botanical classification of plants, Sarcanthinae is a Subtribe of the Tribe Vandeae (Family Orchidaceae) whose representatives all have a monopodial growth habit and do not possess pseudobulbs. ...

Vanda W. Jones ex R. Br. 1820, is a genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae) which, although not large (about fifty species), is one of the most important florally. Bold textbuttRobert Brown (December 21, 1773 - June 10, 1858) is acknowledged as the leading British botanist to collect in Australia during the first half of the 19th century. ... In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically similar species. ... Genera Over 800 See List of Orchidaceae genera. ... In biology, the most commonly used definition of species was first coined by Ernst Mayr. ...

Description

The name "Vanda" is derived from the Sanskrit name for the species Vanda tessellata. The Sanskrit language ( संस्कृता वाक्) is one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family and is not only a classical language, but also an official language of India. ...

These mostly epiphytic, but sometimes lithophytic or terrestrial orchids are distributed in India, Himalaya, SE Asia, Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, southern China and northern Australia. An example of an epiphyte assemblage of orchids and bromeliads in a garden setting The term epiphyte refers to any plant that grows upon or attached to another living plant. ... Lithophytes are a type of plant that grows in or on rocks. ... Terrestrial literally means of the earth and is used in a variety of contexts: In biology and in the general sense, terrestrial means indicates ground-dwelling (compare aquatic). ... The Himalaya is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. ... World map showing location of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of Eurasia, defined by subtracting Europe from Eurasia. ...

The genus has a monopodial growth habit with leaves that are highly variable according to habitat. Some have flat, typically broad, ovoid leaves (strap-leaves), while others have cylindrical (terete), fleshy leaves and are adapted to dry periods. The stems of these orchids vary considerably in size; there are miniature plants and plants with a length of several meters. Orchids with monopodial growth habits grow upward from a single point. ... Habitat (from the Latin for it inhabits) is the place where a particular species lives and grows. ...

There are few to many flattened flowers growing on a lateral inflorescence. Most show a yellow-brown color with brown markings, but they also appear in white, green, orange, red and burgundy shades. The lip has a small spur. Vandas usually bloom every few months and the flowers last for two to three weeks: // Flower Anatomy Flowering plants are heterosporangiate (producing two types of reproductive spores) and the pollen (male spores) and ovules (female spores) are produced in different organs, but these are together in a bisporangiate strobilus that is the typical flower. ... An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers on a branch of a plant. ... The Labellum (or Lip) is a part of an orchid. ...

This genus is one of the five most horticulturally important orchid genera, because it has some of the most magnificent flowers to be found in the entire orchid family. This has contributed much to the work of hybridists producing flowers for the cut flower market. Vanda coerulea is one of the few botanical orchids with blue flowers (actually a very bluish purple; there are no truly blue orchids), a property much appreciated for producing interspecific and intergeneric hybrids. Vanda dearei is one of the chief sources of yellow color in Vanda hybrids. In biology, hybrid has three meanings. ...

Vanda Miss Joaquim is the National Flower of Singapore. // Origin Vanda Miss Joaquim, a hybrid orchid cultivar, is Singapores national flower. ...

Many Vanda orchids (especially Vanda coerulea) are endangered, because of habitat destruction. The export of wild-collected specimens of the Blue Orchid (Vanda coerulea) and other wild Vandas is prohibited worldwide, as all orchids are listed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is an international agreement between Governments, drafted as a result of a resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). ...

Species

• Vanda alpina (Himalaya to China - S. Yunnan).
• Vanda arbuthnotiana (India).
• Vanda arcuata (Indonesia - Sulawesi).
• Vanda bensonii (Assam to Thailand).
• Vanda bicolor (Bhutan).
• Vanda bidupensis (Vietnam).
• Vanda brunnea (China - Yunnan to Indo-China).
• Vanda caerulea : Blue Orchid (Assam to China - S. Yunnan)
• Vanda caerulescens (Arunachal Pradesh to China - S. Yunnan).
• Vanda celebica (Indonesia – Sulawesi).
• Vanda chlorosantha (Bhutan).
• Vanda concolor (S. China to Vietnam).

Vanda coerulea

• Vanda cristata (Himalaya to China - NW. Yunnan).
• Vanda dearei (Borneo).
• Vanda denisoniana (China - Yunnan to N. Indo-China).
• Vanda devoogtii (Sulawesi).
• Vanda foetida (S. Sumatra).
• Vanda furva (Java, Maluku).
• Vanda fuscoviridis (S. China to Vietnam).
• Vanda griffithii (E. Himalaya).
• Vanda hastifera (Borneo).
  • Vanda hastifera var. gibbsiae (N. Borneo).
  • Vanda hastifera var. hastifera (Borneo).
• Vanda helvola (W. Malaysia).
• Vanda hindsii (Papuasia to N. Queensland).

Vanda insignis

• Vanda insignis (Lesser Sunda Is.).
• Vanda jainii (Assam).
• Vanda javierae (Philippines).
• Vanda lamellata (Taiwan (to Philippines, N. Borneo).
• Vanda leucostele (N. & W. Sumatra).
• Vanda lilacina (China - Yunnan to Indo-China).
• Vanda limbata (Java, Lesser Sunda Is., Philippines).
• Vanda lindenii (Maluku).
• Vanda liouvillei (Assam to Indo-China).
• Vanda lombokensis (Lesser Sunda Is.).
• Vanda luzonica (Philippines - Luzon).
• Vanda merrillii (Philippines).
• Vanda petersiana (Myanmar).
• Vanda pumila (Nepal to Hainan and N. Sumatra).
• Vanda punctata (Pen. Malaysia).
• Vanda roeblingiana (Philippines).
• Vanda scandens (Borneo, Philippines - Mindanao).

Vanda tricolor

• Vanda spathulata (India -Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka).
• Vanda stangeana (India - Arunachal Pradesh to Assam).
• Vanda subconcolor (China - SW. Yunnan to Hainan).
  • Vanda subconcolor var. disticha (Hainan).
  • Vanda subconcolor var. subconcolor (China - SW. Yunnan to Hainan).
• Vanda sumatrana (Sumatra).
• Vanda tessellata (Indian Subcontinent to Indo-China).
• Vanda testacea (Indian Subcontinent to SC. China).
• Vanda thwaitesii (Sri Lanka).
• Vanda tricolor (Laos, Java to Bali).
• Vanda vipanii (Myanmar).
• Vanda wightii (S. India)

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Natural hybrids

• Vanda × boumaniae (V. insignis × V. limbata) (Lesser Sunda Is.).
• Vanda × charlesworthii (V. bensonii × V. caerulea) (Myanmar).
• Vanda × confusa (V. caerulescens × V. lilacina) (Myanmar).
• Vanda x Miss Joaquim (V. hookeriana x V. teres) (Singapore).

Intergeneric hybrids

• Aeridovanda (Aerides x Vanda)
• Aeridovanisia (Aerides x Luisia x Vanda)
• Alphonsoara (Arachnis x Ascocentrum x Vanda x Vandopsis)
• Andrewara (Arachnis x Renanthera x Trichoglottis x Vanda)
• Aranda (Arachnis x Vanda)
• Ascocenda (Ascocentrum x Vanda)
• Ascovandoritis (Ascocentrum x Doritis x Vanda)
• Bokchoonara (Arachnis x Ascocentrum x Phalaenopsis x Vanda)
• Bovornara (Arachnis x Ascocentrum x Rhynchostylis x Vanda)
• Burkillara (Aerides x Arachnis x Vanda)
• Charlieara (Rhynchostylis x Vanda x Vandopsis)
• Christieara (Aerides x Ascocentrum x Vanda)
• Darwinara (Ascocentrum x Neofinetia x Rhynchostylis x Vanda)
• Debruyneara (Ascocentrum x Luisia x Vanda)
• Devereuxara (Ascocentrum x Phalaenopsis x Vanda)
• Eastonara (Ascocentrum x Gastrochilus x Vanda)
• Fujiora (Ascocentrum x Trichoglottis x Vanda)
• Goffara (Luisia x Rhynchostylis x Vanda)
• Hawaiiara (Renanthera x Vanda x Vandopsis)
• Hagerara (Doritis x Phalaenopsis x Vanda)
• Himoriara (Ascocentrum x Phalaenopsis x Rhynchostylis x Vanda)
• Holttumara (Arachnis x Renanthera x Vanda)
• Isaoara (Aerides x Ascocentrum x Phalaenopsis x Vanda)
• Joannara (Renanthera x Rhynchostylis x Vanda)
• Kagawara (Ascocentrum x Renanthera x Vanda)
• Knappara (Ascocentrum x Rhynchostylis x Vanda x Vandopsis)
• Knudsonara (Ascocentrum x Neofinetia x Renanthera x Rhynchostylis x Vanda)
• Leeara (Arachnis x Vanda x Vandopsis)
• Luisanda (Luisia x Vanda)
• Luivanetia (Luisia x Neofinetia x Vanda)
• Lewisara (Aerides x Arachnis x Ascocentrum x Vanda)
• Maccoyara (Aerides x Vanda x Vandopsis)
• Macekara (Arachnis x Phalaenopsis x Renanthera x Vanda x Vandopsis)
• Micholitzara (Aerides x Ascocentrum x Neofinetia x Vanda)
• Moirara (Phalaenopsis x Renanthera x Vanda)
• Mokara (Arachnis x Ascocentrum x Vanda)
• Nakamotoara (Ascocentrum x Neofinetia x Vanda)
• Nobleara (Aerides x Renanthera x Vanda)
• Okaara (Ascocentrum x Renanthera x Rhynchostylis x Vanda)
• Onoara (Ascocentrum x Renanthera x Vanda x Vandopsis)
• Opsisanda (Vanda x Vandopsis)
• Pageara (Ascocentrum x Luisia x Rhynchostylis x Vanda)
• Pantapaara (Ascoglossum x Renanthera x Vanda)
• Paulara (Ascocentrum x Doritis x Phalaenopsis x Renanthera x Vanda)
• Pehara (Aerides x Arachnis x Vanda x Vandopsis)
• Pereiraara (Aerides x Rhynchostylis x Vanda)
• Phalaerianda (Aerides x Phalaenopsis x Vanda)
• Raganara (Renanthera x Trichoglottis x Vanda)
• Ramasamyara (Arachnis x Rhynchostylis x Vanda)
• Renafinanda (Neofinetia x Renanthera x Vanda)
• Renanda (Arachnis x Renanthera x Vanda)
• Renantanda (Renanthera x Vanda)
• Rhynchovanda (Rhynchostylis x Vanda)
• Ridleyare (Arachnis x Trichoglottis x Vanda)
• Robinaria (Aerides x Ascocentrum x Renanthera x Vanda)
• Ronnyara (Aerides x Ascocentrum x Rhynchostylis x Vanda)
• Sanjumeara (Aerides x Neofinetia x Rhynchostylis x Vanda)
• Sarcovanda (Sarcochilus x Vanda)
• Shigeuraara (Ascocentrum x Ascoglossum x Renanthera x Vanda)
• Stamariaara (Ascocentrum x Phalaenopsis x Renanthera x Vanda)
• Sutingara (Arachnis x Ascocentrum x Phalaenopsis x Vanda x Vandopsis)
• Teohara (Arachnis x Renanthera x Vanda x Vandopsis)
• Trevorara (Arachnis x Phalaenopsis x Vanda)
• Trichovanda (Trichoglottis x Vanda)
• Vascostylis (Ascocentrum x Rhynchostylis x Vanda)
• Vandachnis (Arachnis x Vandopsis)
• Vancampe (Acampe x Vanda)
• Vandaenopsis (Phalaenopsis x Vanda)
• Vandaeranthes (Aeranthes x Vanda)
• Vandewegheara (Ascocentrum x Doritis x Phalaenopsis x Vanda)
• Vandofinetia (Neofinetia x Vanda)
• Vandofinides (Aerides x Neofinetia x Vanda)
• Vandoritis (Doritis x Vanda)
• Vanglossum (Ascoglossum x Vanda)
• Wilkinsara (Ascocentrum x Vanda x Vandopsis)
• Yapara (Phalaenopsis x Rhynchostylis x Vanda)
• Yusofara (Arachnis x Ascocentrum x Renanthera x Vanda)
• Yonezawaara (Neofinetia x Rhynchostylis x Vanda)

Reference

Martin R. Motes, Alan L. Hoffman : Vandas (their botany, history and culture) (1997) ISBN 0881923761

External links

• Vanda Orchid Forum
• Vanda Miss Joaquim

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