Aerides odorata Lour.

Species

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Characteristics

Stems rather drooping, stout, branched. Leaf blade broadly lorate, 15-20 × 2.5-4.6 cm, thickly leathery, obtuse and unequally bilobed. Inflorescence numerous, nodding, racemose, 15-30 cm, densely 20-30-flowered; floral bracts broadly ovate, 5-9 mm, obtuse. Flowers fragrant, opening widely, 1.5-3 cm in diam., purple to almost white, often tipped and spotted purple, spur apex greenish yellow; pedicel and ovary 1-2.5 cm, slender. Dorsal sepal elliptic, ca. 10 × 8 mm, obtuse-rounded; lateral sepals broadly ovate, ca. 12 × 9 mm, adnate at base to column foot, apex obtuse. Petals subelliptic, 11-12 × 5-7 mm, base contracted, apex obtuse; lip immovable, spurred, 3-lobed, almost enclosing column; lateral lobes erect, obovate-cuneate, ca. 15 × 10 mm, distal margin irregularly toothed, apex obtuse-rounded; mid-lobe linear, ca. 12 × 3 mm, bilobed; spur bent forward, narrowly horn-shaped, ca. 1 cm. Column ca. 5 mm, thick, foot ca. 9 mm. Fl. May. 2n = 36, 38, 40.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.4 - 0.45
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Soil humidity 5-7
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

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Uses environmental use medicinal
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Images

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Distribution

Aerides odorata world distribution map, present in Andorra, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:615287-1
WFO ID wfo-0000868224
COL ID 64YRT
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Synonyms

Aerides odorata f. immaculata Aerides odorata subvar. immaculata Limodorum latifolium Orxera cornuta Aerides ballantiniana Aerides dayana Aerides micholitzii Aerides odorata Aerides rohaniana Aerides virens Epidendrum aerides Epidendrum odoratum Aerides cornuta Aeridium odorum Aerides flavida Aerides jucunda Aerides latifolia Aerides nobilis Aerides reichenbachii Aerides suaveolens Aerides suavissima Aerides cornutum Aerides dayanum Aerides odorata var. annamensis Aerides odorata var. pallida Aerides reichenbachii var. cochinchinensis Aerides odorata var. micholitzii Aerides odorata var. demidovii Aerides odorata var. ballantiniana Aerides odorata var. birmanica Aerides suaveolens var. virens Aerides odorata var. major Polytoma odorifera Aerides odorata var. eburnea