Aerides krabiense Seidenf. 1972

Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery

Common Name The Krabi Aerides [A town in Southern Thailand]

Flower Size

Found in Penninsular Malaysia and Penninsular Thailand on vertical limestone cliffs, as a small sized, hot to warm growing lithophyte with a monopodial stem carrying several thick, conduplicate leaves that blooms on an axillary, arcuate, 4 3/4" to 5 1/2" [12 to 14 cm] long [sometimes longer], several to many [12 to 15] flowered, mostly racemose inflorescence carrying simultaneously opening flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1990; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 6 1993 photo; Orchids of Malaya Holttum 1958

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