Aerides thibautiana Rchb.f. 1866 Photo courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning Thibaut's Aerides [French orchid enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.2 cm]

Found in Java and Sulawesi at elevations of 1200 to 1400 meters in montane forests as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 5 to 8, stiff, strap shaped, almost equally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on an axillary, arching, [12 to 26 cm] long, 15 to 18 flowered inflorescence carrying the evenly spaced flowers that are all prsented on the underside of the inflorescence

Synonyms Aerides huttonii (Hook.f.) H.J.Veitch 1891; Aerides reversa J.J.Sm. 1912; Saccolabium huttonii Hook.f. 1867

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 6 2004/5 photo;