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| name = Blue vanda<br />
| image = An orchid (Vanda caerulea); flowering stem. Watercolour. Wellcome V0043303.jpg<br />
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| genus = Vanda<br />
| species = coerulea<br />
| authority = [[Griff.]] ex [[Lindl.]]<br />
| synonyms = * Vanda coerulea f. rogersii<br />
* Vanda coerulea var. rogersii<br />
* Vanda coerulea f. luwangalba<br />
* Vanda coerulea f. delicata<br />
* Vanda coerulea delicata<br />
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'''''Vanda coerulea''''', commonly known as '''blue orchid''',<ref>{{PLANTS|id=VACO7|taxon=Vanda coerulea|access-date=28 July 2015}}</ref> '''blue vanda''' or '''autumn lady's tresses''', is a species of [[orchid]] found in [[Northeast India]] with its range extending to [[China]] (southern [[Yunnan]]). It is known as ''kwaklei'' in [[Meitei language|Manipuri]] and ''vandaar'' in [[Sanskrit]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2025}} It has bluish purple flowers which are very long-lasting compared to other orchids. The plant bears up to 20 to 30 spikes.<br />
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== Taxonomy ==<br />
The plant was first formally first described by [[John Lindley]] in 1847 from the description provided by [[William Griffith (botanist)|William Griffith]]. The latter had obtained the specimen from the [[Khasi Hills]], and named it. He then sent the dried specimens to London.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Lindley |first=John |date=1847 |title=Vanda violacea |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9070#page/86/mode/1up |journal=Edward's Botanical Register |volume=33 |pages=30 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref><br />
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{{Gallery|title=Botanical drawings of Blue Vanda<br />
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| L. A. L. Constans (1853)<br />
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| James Andrews (1860s)<br />
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| Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1858)<br />
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| Henry George Moon (1893)<br />
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}}The [[Synonym (taxonomy)|heterotypic synonyms]] are,<ref name=":1" /><br />
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* ''Vanda coerulea'' f. ''delicata'' <br />
* ''Vanda coerulea delicata'' <br />
* ''Vanda coerulea'' var. ''grandiflora'' <br />
* ''Vanda coerulea'' var. ''hennisiana'' <br />
* ''Vanda coerulea'' f. ''luwangalba'' <br />
* ''Vanda coerulea'' f. ''rogersii''<br />
* ''Vanda coerulea'' var. ''rogersii'' <br />
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[[Vanda coerulescens]] <small>[[Lindl.]]</small> is a similar but separate species of dwarf form in plant and flowers.<br />
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== Distribution and habitat ==<br />
Previously, it was thought to have been found only in the Khasi Hills.<ref name=":0" /> Here it seemed was threatened as it was over-collected due to its ornamental nature, and local charcoal production from oak trees on which they usually grow. Therefore it was placed in the [[CITES Appendix I]] in the 1970s.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Vanda coerulea Griff. ex Lindl. {{!}} General Information |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:660987-1 |access-date=2025-11-23 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}</ref><br />
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{{Gallery|title=Blue Vanda in the native range<br />
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|File:Vanda coerulea Wild flowers from cherrapunjee.jpg<br />
| In [[Sohra]], [[Khasi Hills]]<br />
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|File:Vanda coerulea Orchi 6054.jpg<br />
| In Khasi Hills<br />
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| In Meghalaya<br />
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| In Nagaland<br />
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== Medicinal uses ==<br />
The flower's juice is used as eye drops against [[glaucoma]], cataract and blindness.<ref>Mohammad Musharof Hossain "Therapeutic orchids: traditional uses and recent advances — An overview", ⁎ Department of Botany, University of Chittagong, Chittagong 4331, Bangladesh</ref> Active ingredients of ''Vanda coerulea'' may fight against the visible signs of ageing skin.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bonté |first=F. |last2=Simmler |first2=C. |last3=Lobstein |first3=A. |last4=Pellicier |first4=F. |last5=Cauchard |first5=J.-H. |date=2011 |title=Action d’un extrait de Vanda coerulea sur la sénescence de fibroblastes cutanés |trans-title=Action of an extract of Vanda coerulea on the senescence of skin fibroblasts |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0003450911000289 |journal=Annales Pharmaceutiques Françaises |language=fr |volume=69 |issue=3 |pages=177–181 |doi=10.1016/j.pharma.2011.02.001|url-access=subscription }}</ref><br />
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== In popular culture ==<br />
[[File:Stamp of Seychelles - 1988 - Colnect 537402 - Vanda Caerulea.jpeg|thumb|Seychelles stamp of Blue Vanda (1988)]]<br />
In 1988 [[Seychelles]] released a stamp featuring the flower.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Commons category-inline|Vanda coerulea|''Vanda coerulea''}}<br />
* {{Wikispecies-inline|Vanda coerulea|''Vanda coerulea''}}<br />
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[[Category:Vanda|coerulea]]<br />
[[Category:Orchids of Assam]]<br />
[[Category:Orchids of Yunnan]]<br />
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