Rhynchostylis coelestis (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. ex Veitch
Description: Found in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of sealevel 350 - 1200 meters as a small sized, cool to hot growing monopodial epiphyte with a stem carrying several, strap-like, fleshy, alternate leaves that blooms on an axillary, erect to arcuate, densely many flowered, racemose inflorescence with waxy, fragrant flowers occuring in the summer and fall.
Photorights: Sok Vichea
- Size: orchid 20 – 30 cm , inflorescence 17 – 23cm, flowers 1.8 – 2cm,
- Collector/Witnesses: Sok Vichea
- Year Collected: 2014 (may have been collected earlier but data can not be used)
- Growing Media: wood
- Flowering Period: April to December
- Color: tight sepals and petals are white or pale blue petals the color purple, blue, purple lip.
- Water: 1 – 2 time daily
- Light: bright light – partial shade
- Temperature: 13 - 32°C