Aerides rosea Lodd. ex Lindl. & Paxton

Ormerod, Paul, Kurzweil, Hubert & Watthana, Santi, 2021, Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar, Phytotaxa 481 (1), pp. 1-262 : 18

Aerides rosea Lodd. ex Lindl. & Paxton , Paxton’s Fl. Gard. 2: 109, pl. 60, 1851

Homotypic synonym: Aerides affinis Wall. ex Lindl. var. rosea (Lodd. ex Lindl. & Paxton) C.S.P.Parish in F.Mason, Burmah, ed. 4, 2:

198, 1883. Heterotypic synonyms: Aerides fieldingii B.S.Williams, Orch. -Grow. Man., ed. 2: 39, 1862. Aerides fieldingii B.S.Williams var. alba L.Linden , Lindenia 12: 23, 1897. Aerides rosea Lodd. ex Lindl. & Paxton f. alba (L.Linden)

Christenson, Proc. World Orchid Conf. 14: 214, 1994.

Specimens examined:— KACHIN. Putao District: Feb−Mar 2007 or Mar 2009, Kurzweil & Saw Lwin KL s.n. [no. 1] ( SING [s]); same loc., 845 m, 20 Mar 2009, Kurzweil & Saw Lwin KL 2600 ( SING [s]); Myitkyina District : without collector s.n. (not located, possibly CAL), fide Pottinger & Prain (1898: 271) [as Aerides fieldingii ] . KAYAH. Loikaw District: Tanaka et al. MY5039 ( TNS, photo seen). TENASSERIM. Parish 63 (not located), fide Parish (1883: 198; as A. affinis var. rosea ). WITHOUT LOCALITY. 9 Mar 1972, Ohtsuka s.n. ( TI). Also reported from Mandalay Region by Saw Lwin (2007: 250), but we have not seen any material from this area.

Distribution:— Eastern Himalayas, northeastern India, Myanmar, Thailand, Indochina and southwestern and southern China.

AERIDOSTACHYA (Hook.f.) Brieger in F.R.R.Schlechter, Orchideen Beschreib. Kult. Zücht., ed. 3, 1 (11−12): 714, 1981