Ascidieria palawanensis (Ames) W.Suarez & Cootes 2009Collection sheet by Ames and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part shade Cool

Common Name The ? Eria

Flower Size

Found on Palawan within the Philippines at elevations around 1200 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short cylindrical pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, linear, smooth, acuminate, unequally bilobed apically, much longer than the inflorecewnce leaves that blooms on an erect, sparassely hairy, lateral, 3.2" [8 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with a few sheaths and short, lanceolate, hairy floral bracts.

Synonyms Cymboglossum palawanense (Ames) Ormerod & Cootes 2019; *Eria palawanensis Ames 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915 as Eria palawanensis ; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as Eria palawanensis;

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