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Small Flowered Vanda
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Small Flowered Vanda
ative Photo: Prashant Awale
Common name: Small Flowered Vanda • Gujarati: નાનું રાસના Nanu Rasna • Hindi: अमड़ी Amdi • Kannada: ಕಿರಿ ರಾಸನಾ Kiri Raasana • Konkani: लहान रास्ना Lahan Rasna • Kurukh: मदगी बांदा Madgi Banda • Malayalam: മരവാഴ Maravaazha • Manipuri: ꯀ꯭ꯋꯥꯀꯤꯕꯤ ꯍꯉꯥꯝꯄꯥꯜ Kwakibi Hangampal • Marathi: हाडाचा लसूण Hadacha Lasun, पिवळी वंदा Pivali Vanda • Mizo: Nau-Bân • Mundari: मदुकम Madukam • Nepali: हरजोर Harajor • Odia: ମଲାଙ୍ଗ Malanga, ରାସ୍ନା Rasna • Tamil: சிறுமலர் வாண்டா Cirumalar Vanda • Telugu: బదనిక Badanika, మర్దారు Mardaru, మొల్లందానా Mollandana, వజనికా Vajnika Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Vanda testacea    Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Vanda parviflora, Aerides testacea, Vanda vitellina
Small Flowered Vanda is a miniature sized, warm to hot growing, epiphyte orchid. It has alternate, linear, recurved leaves. Flowers are borne in a rather loosely 5-20 flowered inflorescence up to 17 cm long. The inflorescence is carried on a stout peduncle. Flowers are fragrant. Small Flowered Vanda is found in Myanamar, Thailand India and Sri Lanka, in dry broad-leafed forests at elevations of 780-2000 m. The plant blooms in the spring and early summer.
Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar Photographed in Karnataka.
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