Aerides multiflora Roxb.

Aerides multiflora, the multi-flowered aerides, is a species of orchid included in the subfamily Epidendroideae, native to Southeast Asia, the Coromandel Coast, and Bangladesh.

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It is a small to medium-sized plant that prefers a hot climate to cool climates and flourishes in May, June or July. It is an epiphyte with a great aroma that has a stem with many curved ligulate leaves with a bi-lobed apex in a hanging influorescence 30 cm long with up to 50 waxy fragrant flowers about 1.85 to 2.5 cm wide.

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Aerides multiflorum was described by William Roxburgh and published in Plants of the Coast of Coromandel 3: 68. 1820. Etymology Aerides (abbreviated Aer.): genus name that comes from the Greek words: "aer" = "air" y "eides" = "resembling", alluding to the habit of epiphytes like these plants that apparently feed off nothing, only what the atmosphere can offer them. multiflorum: Latin epithet that means "with many flowers". Synonymy Aerides affine Wall. 1833 Aerides affinis Wall. ex Lindl. (1833) Aerides lobbii Lem. (1868) Aerides trigonum Klotsch 1855 Aerides veitchi R.H.Torr. ex E.Morren 1876 Aerides veitchii E. Morren (1876) Aerides godefroyana Rchb.f. (1886) Aerides godefroyanum Rchb.f 1886 Aerides multiflora var. godefroyana (Rchb.f.) H.J.Veitch (1887) Epidendrum geniculatum Hook.f. (1890) Aerides multiflora Roxb. (1820) 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)