Aerides maculosa Lindl.
In Edwards's Bot. Reg. 31(Misc.): 58 (1845)
Aerides illustris Rchb.f. in Gard. Chron., n.s., 18: 71 (1882)
Aerides maculosa var. schroederi (Rchb.f.) F.Buyss. in L'orchidophile; Traité Théor. & Prat.: 177 (1878)
Aerides schroederi Rchb.f. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 23: 226 (1855)
Gastrochilus speciosus (Wight) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 661 (1891)
Saccolabium speciosum Wight in Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5: t. 1674 (1851)
This species is endemic to peninsular India
Ecology Epiphyte on Mangifera indica, Strychnos nux vomica, Terminalia paniculata, Grewia tilifolia, Syzygiun cumuni, Different species of Ficus, Samanea saman & many other plants in ever green as well as semievergreen forest
Stem 1-1.5 cm thick, sheathed.
Leaves channelled, coriaceous. 3-23x2.3 cm, green mottled with purple, linear-oblong or oblong, broadest about the middle, with 2 unequal rounded lobes at the apex.
Inflorescence up to 24 cm long, simple or branched ; peduncles terete, stout, sheathed, brownish green mottled with purple.
Flowers about 2.5 cm in diameter, pedicellate, bracteate, faintly perfumed. Pedicel with ovary 10 mm long, pink, ribbed.
Bracts minute, ovate, acute, entire or rarely subcrenulate.
Sepals 11 x 8 mm, subequal, obovate orbicular, obtuse, the lateral ones suboblique, mucronulate, entire, faintly 7-nerved, all white flushed with pink-mauve deeper towards the extremities usually speckled with darker-coloured spots.
Petals 10 X 5 mm similar to the sepals in colour, oblong-elliptic, often, subfalcate, obtuse or slightly retuse, entire, faintly 7 nerved
Labellum trilobed 20x15mm lateral lobes are small about 2-3 mm broad spreading faintly pinkish white, rounded with fleshy white bilobed subconical callus in between, mid lobe 14x14mm deep rose pink flushed with mauve, obcuneately quadrate, obtuse or truncate, rarely retuse irregularly crenate and finely crisped on the margins, the upper surface with parallel ridges from the callus deflexing the sides and the apical portion of the midlobe.
Spur 5 mm long, curved downwards, hook-like, some what tapering to an obtuse subclavate greenish apex; the mouth broad, formed by the backward continuation of the lip and the foot.
Column 5 X 2mm, pink, oblong, slightly upturned above, produced below into a 2-4 mm long, stout foot; clinandrium pale pink with 2 short deeper coloured streaks and a central ridge.
Anther 3 X 3.5 mm, obovate orbicular, pink, the anterior lip truncate;
pollinia 2, each 1 X 1.5 mm, waxy; yellow, broader than long, with a 2 mm long caudicle and narrow elliptic gland.
Stigmatic surface 4 X 3 mm, oblong-orbicular.
Capsules 3-5. X 0.8-1 cm, obovoid, strongly ribbed, shortly stalked.
Flowering: June.
Fruiting: July - August