Eria eriopsidobulbon C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f. 1874 SECTION Hymenaria

Inflorescence Photo by © Karel & Alex Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website

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Common Name The Wooly Pseudobulb Eria

Flower Size

Found in Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam in primary evergreen dense montane forestat elevations of 1200 to 2500 meters as small sized, a cool to cold growing epiphyte with oblong to ovoid pseduobulbs carrying 2 to 3, apical, linear-lanecolate leaves and blooms in the winter in the late winter and spring on a 2" [5 cm] long, shortly puberulous, several flowered inflorescence with bracts as long as the ovaries and carrying fragrant flowers

Synonyms Dendrobium gagnepainii A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller 1957; Dendrobium minutiflorum Gagnep. 1950; Eria floribundoides Guillaumin 1957; Pinalia eriopsidobulbon (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Sayeria minutiflora Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895; Opera Botanica #62 Orchid Genera in Thailand X Seidenfaden 1982 drawing fide

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