Aerides multiflora Roxb. has stems 5‒7 cm long, roots densely clustered with well-developed velamen; leaves fleshy, linear-oblong, 15‒20 cm long. carinate or conduplicate, often tinged with red with apex obliquely bifid; Inflorescence a densely flowered axillary pendulous or arching racemes; floral bract brown, scarious, ovate, acute, 3.5×3 mm size; flower 1.75‒2 cm across, pinkish-white; sepals and petals sub-equal, oblong; lip longer than sepals, adnate to column base, indistinctly 3-lobed,mid-lobe broad, ovate, apex acute; spur small; nearly straight; pollinia 2; fruit a loculicidal capsule, 2.5‒3 cm across.
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