Description: Distribution: Nepal to China (S. Yunnan) to Indo-China 36 CHC 40 ASS BAN EHM IND NEP 41 AND LAO MYA THA VIE (60) fij (62) crl (81) cub Found in Asia-Temperate China China South-Central Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Indo-China Andaman Is., Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam Introduced into Pacific Northwestern Pacific Caroline Is., Southwestern Pacific Fiji Homotypic Synonyms: Dendrobium teres Roxb., Fl. Ind. ed. 1832, 3: 485 (1832). Vanda teres (Roxb.) Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 217 (1833). (* Basionym/Replaced Synonym) Heterotypic Synonyms: Vanda teres var. candida Rchb.f., Gard. Chron., n.s., 4: 225 (1875). Papilionanthe teres f. candida (Rchb.f.) Christenson, Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 63: 1375 (1994). Date: 15 July 2017, 07:09. Source:
Papilionanthe teres (Himalaya, Nepal) (Roxb.) Schltr., Orchis 9: 78 (1915). Author:
snotch from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.