Aerides multiflora

"Aerides multiflora Roxb. was first described by William Roxburgh in 1820. The name is considered as validly published. It is native to Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, western Himalayas, Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland tropical and subtropical forests at elevations of sealevel to 1100 m." 

Aerides multiflora Roxb., Pl. Coromandel 3(3): 68 (1820).

Aerides multiflora Roxb.,  Photo by Yosuke Oda

its native range is Himalaya to Indo-China.

Latin Name: 

Aerides multiflora Roxb.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Aerides affinis Wall. ex J.Lindl.

Aerides godefroyana Rchb.f.

Aerides hughii G.Nicholson

Aerides multiflora var. dactyloides M.Ahmed, Moyeen, Pasha & Aziz Khan

Cleisostoma vacherotiana Guillaumin

Epidendrum geniculatum Hook.f.

English Name:

The Multi-Flowered Aerides.

Thailand name:

Aiyaret - Phuang Malai.

Description: 

With a stout, many leafed stem, carrying ligulate, distichous, curved, bilobed apically leaves that is deeply channeled and keeled and blooms in the spring and summer on a a rarely branched, 30 cm long, pendulous, many to 50 flowered inflorescence with waxy, fragrant flowers.

Distribution:

Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya.

Ecological:

A beautiful foxtail orchid, that has a great scent  in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland tropical and subtropical forests at elevations of sealevel to 1100 m, blooms in May, June or July and is a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing, monopodial orchid.

Flower time:

Bloom in the spring and summer

Flower size:

2.5 cm.

Cultivation:

Plants are best grown hanged in baskets and on mounted and require bright to full sunlight and cool to warm temperatures. If hunged the roots must be watered frequently. Plants should be grown in media that is well drained such as tree fern fibers (for small plants), several pieces of coarse fir bark, or sphagnum moss.

Typus:

Distribution Of Types:

Bangladesh.

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- ipni.org/n/1009116-1

- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1009116-1

- orchidspecies.com/bulbobovatifolium.htm.

- orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Aerides_multiflora

- orchidsnewguinea.com/orchid-information/species/speciescode/388

- travaldo.blogspot.com/2017/12/grow-and-care-aerides-multiflora-orchid.html