- Family : ORCHIDACEAE
(Orchid Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Orchidaceae
- Synonym(s) : Aerides cristata (Wall. ex Lindl.) Wall. ex Hook.f.; Trudelia cristata (Wall. ex Lindl.) Senghas ex Roeth; Luisia striata (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl.; Vanda striata Rchb.f.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Vanda cristata Wall. ex Lindl.
- Common name : Comb Trudelia
- Vernacular name :
- Habit : Epiphytic herb
- Habitat : On tree trunks in evergreen broad-leaved forests; 700 - 2300 m. altitude
- Key identification features : Epiphytic, erect herbs; Stems covered with old sheathes; Leaves many, narrowly oblong, conduplicate, unequally bilobed at apex; Flowers in axillary, 2-5 flowered raceme, greenish or yellowish, Lip 3-lobed with infundibuliform spur, green with purplish-brown blotches; Capsules clavate.
- Flower, Fruit : May-July
- Distribution :
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Lohit, Siang, Subansiri, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Literature :
- Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 234
- Kumar P. et. al., (2008). Orchidaceae, Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya, India. Check List 4(3): 304–323
- Jalal J.S. and Jayanthi J., (2015)
- AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE ORCHIDS OF WESTERN HIMALAYA, INDIA. LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7-50
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 165
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Vanda cristata. Downloaded on 14 October 2024.
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