Aerides multiflorum

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Aerides multiflorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Tribe:	Vandeae
Subtribe:	Aeridinae
Alliance:	Phalaenopsis
Genus:	Aerides
Species:	A. multiflora
Binomial name
Aerides multiflora Roxb. (1820)
Synonyms
Aerides affinis Wall. ex J. Lindl. (1833) Aerides lobbii Lem. (1868) Aerides veitchii E. Morren (1876) Aerides godefroyana Rchb.f. (1886) Aerides multiflora var. godefroyana (Rchb.f.) H.J. Veitch (1887) Epidendrum geniculatum Hook.f. (1890) Aerides multiflora var. lobbii H.J. Veitch (1891) Aerides multiflora var. veitchii (E. Morren) H.J. Veitch (1891) Cleisostoma vacherotiana Guillaumin (1948) Aerides multiflora var. dactyloides M. Ahmed & al. (1989)

Aerides multiflora (The Multi-Flowered Aerides) is a species of orchid, native to Southeast Asia, the Coromandel Coast, and Bangladesh.^[1]

Synonymy and Confusion

In 1820, William Roxburgh published a description of Aerides multiflora.^[2] In 1882, João Barbosa Rodrigues published a description of a very different plant under the name of Epidendrum geniculatum.^[3] Eight years later, in 1890, Joseph Dalton Hooker published a description of an orchid now recognized as Aerides multiflora Roxb. and named it Epidendrum geniculatum.^[4] Thus, Epidendrum geniculatum Barb.Rodr. is a very different taxon from Epidendrum geniculatum Hook.f., a synonym for Aerides multiflora Roxb., the subject of this article.

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