Species Information - Aerides odorata var. quinquevulnera

Aerides odorata Lour. var. quinquevulnera (Lindl.) Holttum, Rev. Fl. Malaya 1 (1953) 694

Type: Loddiges cult. (Cuming) s.n. (Philippines) (holo K)

Synonyms:

• Aerides quinquevulnera Lindl., Sert. Orchid. (1838) sub pl. 30
• Aerides maculatum Llanos, Fragm. Pl. Filip. (1851) 93
  - Type: not designated
• Aerides fenzlianum Rchb.f., Hamburger Garten-Blumenzeitung 16 (1860) 282
  - Type: Cuming 2143 ('2142') (holo W; iso G, K)
• Aerides quinquevulnera Lindl. var. album B.S.Williams, Orchid Grow. Man. ed. 2 (1862) 41
  - Type: not designated
• Aerides farmeri Boxall ex Náves in Blanco, Fl. Filip., ed. 3, Nov. App. (1882) 239 (nom. nud.)
  - Type: not designated
• Aerides quinquevulnera Lindl. var. farmeri (Boxall ex Náves) Stein, Orchideenbuch (1892) 63
• Aerides roebelenii Rchb.f., Gard. Chron. (1884, I) 510
  - Type: Kienast (Roebelen) s.n., herb. Reichb. 19796 (holo W)
• Aerides marginatum Rchb.f., Gard. Chron. (1885, I) 533
  - Type: Sander cult. s.n., herb Reichb. 9585 (holo W)
• Aerides quinquevulnera Lindl. var. marginatum (Rchb.f.) Stein, Orchideenbuch (1892) 63
• Aerides album Sander ex Stein, Orchideenbuch (1892) 63 (pro syn.)
  - Type: not designated
• Aerides quinquevulnera Lindl. var. schadenbergianum Stein, Orchideenbuch (1892) 63
• Aerides quinquevulnera Lindl. var. purpuratum Rchb.f., Gard. Chron., n.s. 16 (1881) 230
• Aerides quinquevulnera Lindl. var. flavum Valmayor & D.Tiu, Philipp. Orchid Rev. 3 (1983) 16
  - Type: Valmayor & Tiu 101 (holo CAHP)
• Aerides quinquevulnera Lindl. var. punctatum Valmayor & D.Tiu, Philipp. Orchid Rev. 3 (1983) 16
  - Type: Valmayor & Tiu 102 (holo CAHP)

Stems suberect, to c. 40 cm long, densely many-leaved. Leaves strap-shaped, 20-30 by 3-4 cm, thick leathery, apex unequally bilobed. Inflorescences from the leaf axils, racemose, pendulous, about as long as the leaves, rather densely many-flowered. Floral bracts minute. Ovary with pedicel 2 cm long. Median sepal elliptic, 1 by 0.6 cm, apex obtuse. Lateral sepals obliquely broadly ovate, 1.5 by 1 cm, inserted on the column-foot, apex obtuse. Petals elliptic, 0.8 by 0.5 cm, apex obtuse. Lip 3-lobed, 1.3 cm long, spurred; lateral lobes erect, broadly rounded, the upper margins almost touching; mid-lobe much narrower than the lateral lobes, rectangular, curved inwards and upwards against the front margins of the lateral lobes, margins erose, apex truncate; spur curved forwards, horn-like, 1.3 cm long. Column short, thick; column-foot much longer than the column.

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