Aerides odorata Lour.

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Published in : Fl. Cochinch.: 525 (1790).

Distribution : South China, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, West Himalaya, Andaman, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Penin. Malaysia, Phillipines, Sulawesi & Sumatra.

Homotypic Synonyms: Epidendrum odoratum (Lour.) Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl., Suppl. 1: 385 (1810).

Heterotypic Synonyms: Epidendrum aerides Raeusch., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 3: 265 (1797). Limodorum latifolium Thunb. ex Sw., J. Bot. (Schrader) 2: 234 (1799). Aerides latifolia (Thunb. ex Sw.) Sw., Neues J. Bot. 1: 89 (1806). Aeeridium odorum Salisb., Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1: 295 (1812). 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 jucunda Rchb.f., Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 16: 281 (1860). Aerides nobilis R.Warner, Select Orchid. Pl. 1: t. 11 (1865). Polytoma odorifera Lour. ex Gomes Mach., Mem. Acad. Real Sci. Lisboa, 2 Cl. Sci. Moraes, n.s., 4(1): 30 (1868). 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.) H.J.Veitch, Man. Orchid. Pl. 7: 78 (1891). Aerides micholitzii Rolfe, Orchid Rev. 12: 181 (1904), nom. nud. 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 Guillaumin in 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).