Vanda roeblingiana

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|authority=Rolfe (1894){{IPNI|id=661059-1|accessdate=6 December 2018}}

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Vanda roeblingiana, Roebelen's vanda, is a species of orchid endemic to the mountain provinces of the island of Luzon in the Philippines.{{cite journal|last1=Teoh|first1=Eng-Soon|title=Orchids of Asia|journal=Times Editions-Marshall Cavendish|date=2005|volume=Third Edition|page=234|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=9812610154|accessdate=6 December 2018}} Hugh Low, a British colonial administrator and naturalist introduced the plant to London in 1893.{{cite book |title=Bulletin of miscellaneous information |date=1894 |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. |location=London |page=365|edition=1894 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127108#page/369/mode/1up |accessdate=6 December 2018}} The next year, Robert Allen Rolfe, an English botanist formally described the plant and thought it was originally collected from the vicinity of Singapore or Peninsular Malaysia.{{cite news |last1=Cootes |first1=Jim |last2=Boos |first2=Ronny |title=Three unique Philippine Vanda species |url=https://www.pressreader.com/philippines/manila-bulletin/20160925/281530815502929 |accessdate=6 December 2018 |work=Manila Bulletin |date=September 25, 2016}} Low, who works in Clapton Nursery had collecting expedition to Southeast Asia with Singapore as headquarter.