Aerides flabellata Rolfe ex Downey 1925 SECTION Falcata
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo courtesy of Nik Fahmi and his Vortex Orchid Page
Photo courtesy of David Morris
Photos courtesy of Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery
Common Name or Meaning The Fan-Shaped Aerides In Thailand - Nok philap - Inthachak - In China Shan Chun Ziu Jia Lan
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Thailand, Myanmar and Yunnan province of China at lowland broad-leaved evergreen and semi-deciduous forests edges or sparse woods at elevations of 200 to 1700 meters as a small to just medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic species that requires partial sun and has a shorter stem carrying many, lorate, curved, keeled, bilobed apically leaves and blooms in the spring with a 4 to 10" [10 to 25 cm] long, pendant, lax, 3 to 15 flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Vanda flabellata (Rolfe ex Downie) Christenson 1985
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1963 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Botanisk Tidsskrift bd 68 hft 1 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand V Seidedenfaden 1973 drawing fide; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing/photo fide; Miniature Orchids McQueen 1992; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombat 1992 photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Vandas Motes 1997 as Vanda flabellata photo fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo good; A to Z of SE Asian Orchids O'Byrne 2001; Australian Orchid Review Vol 67 No 6 2002/3 photo; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glenn 2002; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov1 , Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Wulfenia 22 [2015]: 137 - 188 New Orchids in the Flora of Vietnam Averyanov, Nguyen, Tich, Nguyen, Nong, Nguyen and Xuan photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #1 2016 as Vanda flabellata photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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