Aerides odorata

 Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Aerides odorata']

• العربية: أريدي عطري
• مصرى: اريدى عطرى
• অসমীয়া: এৰিডেছ অ'ড'ৰাটা
• বাংলা: অ্যারিডেস ওডোরাটা
• español: La Aerides fragante
• Bahasa Indonesia: Anggrek lilin
• 日本語: エリデス・オドラツム
• lombard: Aerides odoratum
• മലയാളം: ഐറിഡെസ് ഒഡൊറാറ
• ไทย: กุหลาบกระเป๋าปิด
• Tiếng Việt: Quế lan hương
• 中文: 香花指甲兰
• 中文（中国大陆）: 香花指甲兰
• 中文（简体）: 香花指甲兰
• 中文（臺灣）: 香花指甲蘭

APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: Angiosperms • Cladus: monocots • Ordo: Asparagales • Familia: Orchidaceae • Subfamilia: Epidendroideae • Tribus: Vandeae • Subtribus: Aeridinae • Genus: Aerides • Species: Aerides odorata Lour. (1790)

Synonyms

Homotypic synonyms Epidendrum odoratum (Lour.) Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl., Suppl. 1: 385 (1810) Aeridium odorum Salisb., Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1: 295 (1812) Heterotypic synonyms Epidendrum aerides Raeusch., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 3: 265 (1797) Limodorum latifolium Thunb. ex Sw., J. Bot. (Schrader) 1799(2): 234 (1800) Aerides latifolia (Thunb. ex Sw.) Sw., Neues J. Bot. 1: 89 (1806) Aerides cornuta Roxb., Fl. Ind. ed. 1832, 3: 472 (1832) Orxera cornuta (Roxb.) Raf., Fl. Tellur. 4: 37 (1838) Aerides virens Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 29(Misc.): 41 (1843) Aerides suaveolens Blume, Rumphia 4: 53 (1849), nom. superfl. Aerides suaveolens var. virens (Lindl.) Blume, Rumphia 4: 53 (1849) Aerides suavissima Lindl., J. Hort. Soc. London 4: 264 (1849) Aerides flavida Lindl., Paxton's Fl. Gard. 2: 101 (1851) Aerides reichenbachii Linden, Wochenschr. Gärtnerei Pflanzenk. 1: 61 (1858) Aerides odorata var. major Ortgies, Gartenflora 8: 321 (1859) Aerides jucunda Rchb.f., Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 16: 281 (1860) Aerides nobilis B.S.Williams, Orch.-Grow. Man., ed. 2: 40 (1862) Polytoma odorifera Lour. ex B.A.Gomes, Mem. Acad. Real Sci. Lisboa, 2 Cl. Sci. Moraes, n.s., 4(1): 30 (1868) Aerides virens var. ellisii B.S.Williams, Gard. Chron.., n.s., 1: 836 (1874) Aerides reichenbachii var. cochinchinensis Rchb.f., Gard. Chron. 1880(2): 620 (1880) Aerides rohaniana Rchb.f., Gard. Chron. 21: 206 (1884) Aerides ballantiniana Rchb.f., Gard. Chron., n.s., 24: 198 (1885) Aerides odorata var. demidovii Linden, Lindenia 1: t. 14 (1885) Aerides wilsoniana auct., Gard. Chron. 23: 705 (1885) Aerides odorata var. birmanica Rchb.f., Gard. Chron., III, 3: 272 (1887) Aerides odorata var. ballantiniana (Rchb.f.) A.H.Kent in H.J.Veitch, Man. Orchid. Pl. 7: 78 (1891) Aerides micholitzii Rolfe, Orchid Rev. 12: 181 (1904), nom. nud. Aerides odorata var. eburnea Cogn., Chron. Orchid. 2(1): 2 (1904) Aerides odorata var. annamensis Costantin, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 23: 55 (1917) Aerides dayana Guillaumin in H.Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 6: 466 (1933) Aerides odorata subvar. immaculata Guillauminin H.Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 6: 466 (1934) Aerides odorata var. pallida Guillaumin, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., II, 34: 411 (1962) Aerides odorata var. micholitzii (Rolfe) Guillaumin, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., II, 34: 411 (1963) Aerides odorata f. immaculata (Guillaumin) M.Wolff & O.Gruss, Orchid. Atlas: 32 (2007)

Type species

Images of the whole plant

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Inflorescences

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Flowers

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  Aerides odorata
  alba form

Botanical illustrations

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  Aerides odorata
  (as syn.
  Aerides cornutum)
  plate 1485 in:
  Edwards's Bot. Register
  (Orchidaceae),
  vol. 18,
  (1832)
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  Aerides odorata
  (as syn.
  Aerides virens)
  plate 41 in:
  Edwards's Bot. Register
  (Orchidaceae),
  vol. 30,
  (1844)
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  Aerides odorata
  plate 4139 in:
  Curtis's Bot. Magazine
  (Orchidaceae),
  vol. 71,
  (1845)
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  Aerides odorata
  (as syn.
  Aerides suavissima)
  plate 66 in first Edition:
  J. Lindley & J. Paxton:
  Paxton's Flower Garden
  (Orchidaceae)
  (1850-1853)
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  Aerides odorata
  plate 11 in:
  Robert Warner:
  Select Orchidaceous Plants - I. Series
  (1862-1865)
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  Aerides odorata
  (as syn.
  Aerides reichenbachii)
  plate 104 in:
  H. G. Reichenbach:
  Xenia orchidacea - vol. 2
  (1874)
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  Aerides odorata
  (as syn.
  Aerides virens)
  Plate 160 in:
  R.Warner - B.S.Williams:
  The Orchid Album
  (1882-1897)
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  Aerides odorata
  (as syn.
  Aerides virens
  var. ellisii)
  Plate 298 in:
  R.Warner - B.S.Williams:
  The Orchid Album
  (1882-1897)
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  Aerides odorata
  (as syn.
  Aerides odoratum)
  plate 282 in:
  G.King & R.Pantling:
  The Orchids of the
  Sikkim-Himalaya
  Calcutta (1898)
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  Aerides odorata
  figure 436 in:
  Johannes Jacobus Smith:
  Die Orchideen von Java
  Figuren-Atlas - 5. Heft
  Leiden (1912)

Native distribution areas

Reference: Brummitt, R.K. (2001) TDGW - World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition Asia-Temperate China China South-Central, China Southeast. Asia-Tropical  Indian Subcontinent Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, West Himalaya. Indo-China Andaman Islands, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Vietnam. Malesia Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera.

References

Description of taxon

• Loureiro, J. de (1790) Flora Cochinchinensis 2: 525.

Selected Bibliography

• Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.W. & Rasmussen, F.N. (eds.) (2014) Genera Orchidacearum Volume 6: Epidendroideae (Part three); page 133 ff., Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199646517
  

Selected Weblinks

Wikispecies has an entry on: Aerides odorata.

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