Aerides inflexa Teijsm. & Binn. 1862 SECTION Aerides
Photos by S. S. Yunus
Photo by Dr. E.F. de Vogel, courtesy of André Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
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Common Name The Bent Aerides
Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]
Found in Sulawesi, Borneo and on the west coast of Luzon within the Philippines as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an upright to semipendulous stem carrying strap-shaped, arching, unequally bilobed leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an axillary, arching to subarching, to 8.4" [21 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with up to 21, long-lasting, fragrant flowers
Synonyms Aerides bernhardianum Rchb.f. 1885
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 #6 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A to Z of SE Asian Orchids O'Byrne 2001; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide;
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