Papilionanthe teres orchid

Papilionanthe teres orchid. Native to southeast Asia, Yunnan to the Himalayas, discovered in Sylhet (Bangladesh) by botanist Nathaniel Wallich, superintendent of Calcutta Botanic Garden. Taper-leaved vanda, Vanda teres. Handcoloured lithograph from Joseph Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 5, Orr and Smith, London, 1838

1838 Bangladesh Botanical Art Botanical Illustration Himalayas Joseph Paxton Magazine Of Botany Orchid Orr And Smith Plant Hunter Register Of Flowering Plants Southeast Asia Superintendent Volume 5 Yunnan

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