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!Aerides odorata Lour. 1790 SECTION Aerides  Photo by © Sudeep Kumar Jain M.Sc. (Plant Biotechnology) ResearchAssociate NRC for Orchids, Sikkim, India

Inflorescence  Photo courtesy of Nik Fahmi and his Vortex Orchid Page.

Pink Variety Vietnam  Photo courtesy of David Morris and Clackamas Orchids

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Common Name The Fragrant Aerides - In Thailand Kulap khao - Ueang pao - Kulap krapao pit - In China Xiang HuaZhi Jia Lan

Flower Size 1 to 1 3/4" [2.5 to 4.4 cm]

This species is the type species for the genus and is widespread through the Chinese Himalayas, western Himalayas,Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam,Penninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi and the Philippines occuring in broadleaf, evergreen, lowlandforests as a large to giant sized, highly variable, hot to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters high upin trees in bright sun with very stout, drooping, branching stems carrying fleshy, incurved, oblong-ligulate, round lobedat the apex, broad, pale green leaves. As it's name implies it is highly fragrant and blooms in the late spring through fallon up to 3, sharply pendant, to 2' [60 cm] long, many [to 30] flowered, cylindric inflorescence that arise out of the leaf axils and as developing can be very sticky and giving rise to many, waxy, very fragrant flowers.

Synonyms  Aeeridium odorum Salis. 1812; Aerides ballantiniana Rchb.f. 1885; Aerides cornuta Roxb. 1832; Aeridesdayana hort. 1933; Aerides jucunda Rchb.f. 1860; Aerides latifolia (Thunb. ex Sw.) Sw. 1806; Aerides micholitzii Rolfe1904; Aerides nobilis Warn. 1862; Aerides rohaniana Rchb. f. 1884; Aerides suaveolens Blume 1849; Aerides suavissimaLindley 1849; Aerides virens Lindley 1843; Aerides wilsoniana R.H. Torr. 1885; Epidendrum aerides Rausch 1797;

Epidendrum odoratum 1810; Limodorum latifolium Thunb. ex Sw. 1799; Orxera cornuta Raf. 1836

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1862 as A reichenbachii drawing fide;Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Aerides pachyphylla; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; DieOrchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Aerides virens drawing good; Atlas desOrchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Aerides suavissisimum drawing good; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin1920 as Aerides suavissisimum var reichenbachii drawing good; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holtum 1953; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 11 1963 photo; Encylopedia of CultivatedOrchids Hawkes 1965 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 3 1970 photo; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto &Sagarik 1975 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978 photo; The Orchids Of Penninsular Malaysia and SingaporeSeidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 3 1984 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985;Orchidiana Philippiniana Vol 1 valmayor 1984; Die Orchideen lieferung 19/20 Schlechter/Brieger 1988 drawing as Alawrencea not = A odorata fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 19/20 Schlechter/Brieger 1988 photo fide; Orchids of Java

Comber 1990 photo fide; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; The Illustrated Encyclopediaof Orchds Pridgeon 1992; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombat 1992 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysiaand Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 6 1993 photo; The Plants of MountKinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb1994; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Teo 1995; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 2 1999

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photo; A field Guide to the wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo good; Beautiful Orchids of NepalRajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchid Flora Of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 drawing fide;

Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 as A odorata var alba photofide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 67 No 5 2002 photo; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; A to Z of SE Asian OrchidsO'Byrne 2002 photo fide; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glenn 2002 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002;Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 1 Tanaka 2003; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman andde Vogel 2003; Flora's Orchids Nash and La Croix 2005; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti2005 photo good; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 3 Tanaka 2007; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 photo fide;Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photosfide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo; The Orchids of 

Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide; Wild Orchids of PenninsularMalaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

Aerides odorata Lour. var alba 1849  to LATE to

This variety of the previous species is endemic to one island [Palawan] in the Philippines.

Aerides odorata Lour. var quinquevulnera Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.

A color variety of the norm

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Aeridesquinquevulnera drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 10 1962 photo as A odoratum var immaculatum; Beautiful ThaiOrchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; WildOrchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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