Eria cepifolia Ridl. 1896 SECTION Urostachya
Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by © Rosli Zakaria and Exotic Orchids Of Malaysia Website
Drawing by © Seidenfaden
Common Name The Onion - Leaved Eria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Thailand, Malaysia and Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations of 300 to 1400 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with slender at the base, thickening and compressed above stems carrying 3 to 4, very narrow, deeply channeled, acute, terete leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on 1 to 5 at a time, almost erect, to 6" [15 cm] long, crowded, several flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Pinalia cepifolia [ Ridl.] J.J. Wood 2011; Urostachya cepifolia (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of the Malayan Penninsula Ridley 1908; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 as E earina; Opera Botanica #62 Orchid Genera in Thailand X Seidenfaden 1982 drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore, Seidenfaden & Woods 1992 drawing ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Pinalia cepifolia; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide
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