- Family : ORCHIDACEAE
(Orchid Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Orchidaceae
- Synonym(s) : Aerides testacea Lindl.; Aerides wightiana Lindl.; Vanda vitellina Kraenzl.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Vanda testacea (Lindl.) Rchb.f.
- Vernacular name :
- Hadaicha-lasun (Marathi)
- Maravazha (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests; also in the plains
- Comments / notes : On foothills to 1400m, on trees.
- Key identification features : Monopodial epiphytes with thick, stout stem; Leaves linear, strongly foldes at mid-vein, raceme axillary, equaling the leaves; Flowers yellowish-brown, long pedicelled; lip reflexed, 3-lobed.
- Flower, Fruit : April-July
- Collector(s) Name : T.P.Ramamoorthy, K.N.Gandhi; Cecil J. Saldanha
- Collection Date : 6-4-1972, 22-04-1966, 09-10-1964
- Collection Nos : HFP 2757; CS 10341; CS 9334
- Collection Locality : Hebbsale,Hassan district; Sakleshpur; Hassan-Sakleshpur road
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, East Godavari district, Kurnool district, Nellore district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, Vizianagaram district
- Telangana : Mehboobnagar district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Bhandara district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Thane district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Koraput district, Keonjhar district, Kalhandi district, Ganjam district
- Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Subansiri
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- Prasad, K et al 2012 Conservation of Wild Orchids in Sri Krishnadevaraya University botanical garden, Ananthapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 4(7)
- 2705-2708
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 166
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Vanda testacea. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Line Drawings
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Field Image(s)
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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