Papilionanthe teres - Cylindrical Vanda

Cylindrical Vanda is a beautiful orchid with widely opening flowers 4-10 cm across. Sepals and petals are white, tinged with pink or purplish, lip deep purple-red, spur yellowish brown; flower-stalk and ovary white, 2-3 cm. Dorsal sepal is broadly elliptic, about 2.5 × 2 cm, blunt-rounded; lateral sepals obliquely ovate-oblong, about 3 × 2 cm, base adnate to column foot, tip blunt. Petals are nearly round, large, about 3 × 2.7 cm, blunt; lip spurred, 3-lobed; lateral lobes embracing column, nearly obovate, about 1.5 cm wide, rounded; mid-lobe spreading, obovate-triangular, about 2 cm, above shortly hairy, deeply bilobed; spur conic, about 2 cm. Column is about 5 mm, foot about 5 mm. Stems are scrambling, round, usually to 1 m, stout, branching. Leaves well spaced, round, 8-18 cm × 4-5 mm, fleshy, blunt. Inflorescence is slightly longer than leaf, laxly 2-5-flowered. Cylindrical Vanda is found in Nepal to China (S. Yunnan) to Indo-China.