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

Part Shade Warm LATE Winter Spring

Common Name The Almost Closed Eria [refers to the flower not opening well]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 600 to 950 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with flexuous, puberulous, rhizome giving rise to cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 4, erect-patent, lanceolate-ligulate, obtuse, narrowly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on a lateral, shortly pedunculate, laxly 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the partially open flowers are snow white.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 Drawing fide;

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