Ceratostylis eriaeoides Hook.f.1891 SECTION Pleuranthemum Photo courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Plant in situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia Photo By © David Kuehn

Common Name or Meaning The Eria-Like Ceratostylis

Flower Size

Found only in penninsular Malaysia on exposed ridges with tufted stems enveloped basally by several imbricating shetahs and carrying a single, apical, erect, rather fleshy, linear, wider towards the apex, shortly acute leaves that blooms on a very short to 1.2" [3 cm], single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Ceratostylis eria Govaerts 1999; Eria pygmaea Hook.f. 1890; Pinalia pygmaea (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Woods & Seidenfaden 1992