Eria kenejiana Schltr. 1912 SECTION Cylindrolobus Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Kenejia River Eria

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 200 meters as a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte with an elongate, flexuous, minutely puberulous rhizome giving rise to simple, strict to substrict, densely leafy pseudobulbs carrying erect-patent, glabrous, fleshy, lanceolate-linear, obliquely subacute leaves that blooms in the spring on a lateral, short, single flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are white, the lip has red lateral lobes and the apex of the column foot has a basal yellow callus with brown warts.

This species differs from E rhodoleuca and by extension E mucronata in the longer bracts and the lip differences.

Synonyms Cylindrolobus rhodoleucus (Schltr.) Brieger 1981; Trichotosia rhodoleuca (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt 1971

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 Drawing fide; Manual of Orchids Botanica 2002 photo fide; Harvard Pap. Bot. 19: 79; A Synopsis of Eria Lindl. section Cylindrolobus (Blume) Lindl. (Orchidaceae: Eriinae) in Malesia Ormerod 2014;

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