Many Flowered Fox Brush Orchid.

Botanical name: Aerides multiflora

Family:Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Aerides affinis, Aerides lobbii, Aerides veitchii

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Many Flowered Fox Brush Orchid is a beautiful, fragrant, foxtail orchid, native to Eastern Himalayas and SE Asia at altitudes of sea-level to 1100 m. It is a small to medium sized, single-stemmed orchid with a stout, many leafed stem. Leaves are strap-shaped, curved, bilobed at the tip. Flowers arise on a rarely branched, 1 ft long, pendulous, many (up to 50) flowered inflorescence. Flowers are waxy and fragrant. Flowering: May-July.

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

Synonymy and confusion

In 1820, William Roxburgh published a description of Aerides multiflora. In 1882, João Barbosa Rodrigues published a description of a very different plant under the name of Epidendrum geniculatum. 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. 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.

References:

1. Many Flowered Fox Brush Orchid, Flower of India, http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Many%20Flowered%20Fox%20Brush%20Orchid.html.

2. Aerides multiflora, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerides_multiflora.