Foxtail orchid

Rhynchostylis retusa (L.) Blume is a species of orchid in the Vanda alliance. It is native to regions including Bangladesh, Borneo, China South-Central, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. The plant features a short, stout, creeping stem with up to 12 curved, fleshy, deeply channeled, keeled leaves, which are retuse at the apex. The inflorescence is an axillary, pendant raceme, reaching up to 60 cm in length. It is densely flowered, cylindrical, and bears more than 100 pink-spotted white flowers. The species was first described in 1825.