Eria pauciflora Wight 1851 Photo by © K S Seshadri and The India Nature Watch Website

Plant and Flowers Photo by © P.S. Sivaprasad and The Flowers of India Website

Common Name The Few Flowered Eria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in southern India at elevations of 1600 to 2000 meters high in the canopy as a miniature sized, cool growing lithophyte with a at first narrow cylindrical becoming clavate above stem carrying 2, oblong, narrow,articulate below into the base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal, erect, short, 1 to 3 flwoered inflorescence arising through a tube like sheath and carrying long pedicellate flowers with ovate lanceoalte floral bracts.

Synonyms Pinalia nilgherensis Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Wight, R., Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis, vol. 5(1) 1846

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