Common name: Parish's Vandopsis • Manipuri: Kwaklei naathabi
Botanical name: Vandopsis parishii Family: Orchidaceae (orchid family)
A large, warm to hot growing, epiphytic orchid that is found in Burma,
Thailand, Vietnam and Manipur in evergreen and semi-deciduous forests on
limestone
cliffs or in primary montane forests at altitudes up to 1300 meters with a
short, stout stem carrying elliptic-oblong, unequally, obtusely bilobed or
deeply emarginate apically leaves and blooms on an axillary, 1.5 ft
long, 5 to several flowered inflorescence with ovate-elliptic, acute or
subacute, cuculate bracts and fragrant heavy textured, long lasting flowers,
that is longer than the leaves occuring in the late winter and spring.
| Photographed in Imphal, Manipur. |
Identification credit: R.K. Nimai Singh
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