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Vanda sanderiana (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f.

Orchidaceae · Philippines · listed by its genus as an orchid

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Summary

Vanda sanderiana is a species of orchid. It is commonly called waling-waling in the Philippines and is also called Sander's Vanda, after Henry Frederick Conrad Sander, a noted orchidologist. The orchid is considered to be the "Queen of Philippine flowers" and is worshiped as a diwata by the indigenous Bagobo people.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Waling-waling", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as an orchid, listed under the genus Vanda in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphytic subshrub”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Vanda in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphytic subshrub”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativePhilippines · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“epiphytic subshrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced record lies inside the stated native range, and all 2 georeferenced records read lie outside it: the range and the records disagree. They are not used, and no map marker or climate is derived from them.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Kevin Faccenda, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Vanda 30 in the reference

Vanda alpina Vanda alpina Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiVanda ampullacea Vanda ampullacea Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Badlydrawnboy22Vanda bicolor Vanda bicolor Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Wang.QGVanda brunnea Vanda brunnea Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiVanda celebica Vanda celebica Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Jason AlexanderVanda christensoniana Vanda christensoniana Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Badlydrawnboy22Vanda coelestis Vanda coelestis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, ผู้สร้างสรรค์ผลงาน/ส่งข้อมูลเก็บในคลังข้…Vanda coerulea Vanda coerulea Blue orchid Photo: CC BY, JiguVanda coerulescens Vanda coerulescens Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, José Esquerre Vanda concolor Orchidaceae Vanda cristata Vanda cristata Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Morten RossVanda curvifolia Vanda curvifolia Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, sunoochi from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan all 31 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Esmeralda sanderiana; Euanthe sanderiana; Euanthe sanderiana f. albata; Euanthe sanderiana f. immaculata; Vanda sanderiana var. albata and 3 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
(Rchb.f.) Rchb.f.
Native to
Philippines
Wild records
none in range · 2 outside it

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia's article Waling-waling, the English article of this species' Wikidata item (Q15188539)
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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