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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alba form

Botanical illustrations

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