Eria marginata Rolfe 1889 SECTION Cylindrilobus

Plant and Flowers in situ Thailand

Another Color Form - I think this is another species E crisata?

Photos by Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery

Fragrant Part Shade Cool LATEWinter EARLYSummer Fall

Common Name The Rimmed Eria [refers to the side lobes of the lip] - In China Xhu Lan

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Myanmar, Thailand and Yunnan province of China in forest margins on tree trunks at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a tufted, clavate, above the middle conspicuously dilated pseudobulbs carrying [2] three [4], sessile, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the late winter, early summer and fall on 1 to 2, subterminal, short to .2" [5 mm] long, 1 or 2 flowered inflorescence with persistent, opposite, oblong to ovate, acute floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Cylindrolobus marginatus (Rolfe) S.C.Chen & J.J.Wood 2009; Pinalia marginata (Rolfe) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 Schlechter/Brieger 1981; Opera Botanica #62 Orchid Genera in Thailand X Seidenfaden 1982 drawing/photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo ok; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2005; Australian Orchid Review Vol 72 No 2 2007 photo; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Cylindrolobus marginatus; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 as Cylindrolobus marginatus drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 as Cylindrolobus marginatus photos fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Taunggyi 2014 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #2 2016 drawing fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 asCylindrolobus marginatus photo fide;

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