Eria wildiana Rolfe ex Downie 1925 SECTION Conchidium Photo by © Tripetch and The Swiss Treking Thai Website

Drawing Drawing by © Seidenfaden

Full Shade Cool LATESpring EARLYSummer

Common Name or Meaning Wild's Eria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Thailand at elevations of 1650 to 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with globose, ribbed pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, soon deciduous, linear-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, .8" [2 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence carrying white flowers.

Synonyms Conchidium wildianum (Rolfe ex Downie) Ormerod 2012; Dendrobium wildianum (Rolfe ex Downie) Tang & F.T.Wang 1951

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Contribution to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975; Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1960; Opera Botanica #62 Orchid Genera in Thailand X Seidenfaden 1982 drawing fide;

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