Aerides leeana Rchb.f. 1881 SECTION Aerides

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Common Name or Meaning Lee's Aerides [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 1/4" [.6 cm]

Found in the Philippines at medium elevations as a small to just medium sized, monopodial, cool to hot growing epiphyte with curved stems carrying many, lorate, leathery, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring and fall with pendant, 16" to 46" [40 to 115 cm] long, densly many flowered inflorescence enveoloped by remote, tubular, ovate sheaths and ovate, acute, reflexed floral bracts carrying fragrant, waxy, long-lived flowers.

Synonyms Aerides jarckiana Schltr. 1915; Aerides jarckiana f. alba Valmayor & D.Tiu, Philipp. 1983; Aerides jarckiana Schlechter var alba Valmayor & Tiu 1984; Aerides jarckinana var smithii Ames & Quis. 1933; Aerides recurvipes J.J.Sm. 1926; Saccolabium semiclausum Kraenzl. 1916

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 #6 1964 as A jarcianum photo fide; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as A jarckianum; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as A jarckianum drawing/photo fide; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as A jarckianum var smithiidrawing/photo fide; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1982; Orchidiana Philippiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as A jarckiana f alba; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as A jarckiana var smithii; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 as A jarckiana photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 6 1993 drawing fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995 listed as syn of A quinquevulnera; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 67 No 5 2002 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 67 No 5 2002 photo; Flora's Orchids Nash and La Croix 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #11 2011 photo fide; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide

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