Aerides multiflora Roxbury 1823 SECTION Fieldingia

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

FragrancePart sunHotTo CoolSpring TO Early Summer

Common Name The Multi-Flowered Aerides - In Thailand - Aiyaret - Phuang Malai

Flower Size 3/4 to 1" [1.85 cm to 2.5 cm]

A beautiful foxtail orchid, has a great scent and comes from Assam, Bangladesh, Eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, western Himalayas, Andaman Islands, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland tropical and subtropical forests at elevations of sealevel to 1100 meters, blooms in May, June or July and is a small to medium sized, cool to hot growing, monopodial orchid with a stout, many leafed stem, carrying ligulate, distichous, curved, bilobed apically leaves that is deeply channeled and keeled and blooms on a a rarely branched, 12" [30 cm] long, pendulous, many [to 50] flowered inflorescence with waxy, fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Aerides affinis Wall 1833; Aerides godefroyana Rchb.f 1886; Aerides lobbii Hort. ex Lem. 1868; Aerides trigona Klotsch 1855; Aerides veitchi De Puydt ?; Aerides veitchi R.H. Torr. ex E. Morren 1876; Cleisostoma vacherotiana Guillaumin 1948; Epidendrum geniculatum Hook.f. 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 1 1958 drawing; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing, photo fide; AOS Bulletin vol 47 No 7 1978; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 9 1982 photo; The Orchids Of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1982; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 6 1993 photo; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Orchid Flora Of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 ; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchds Pridgeon 1992; A to Z of SE Asian Orchids O'Byrne 2002; Orchids of Malaya Holtum 1953; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Australian Orchid Review Vol 67 No 6 2002/3 photo; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glenn 2002; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Flora's Orchids Nash and La Croix 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 6 2006 photo; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 3 Tanaka 2007;

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