Eria bipunctata Lindl. 1841 SECTION Pinalia
Photos by © Pierre Bonnet from the Orchis project website
Common Name The Two Spotted Eria - In China Shuang Dian Ping Lan
Flower Size 3/8" [.4 cm]
Found in Assam, Nepal, Yunnan provionce of China, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in forests on tree trunks at elevations of 1500 to 1800 as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a narrowly obovoid to clavate, smoewhat flattened pseudobulb carrying 3 to 4,obovate, obovate-elliptic to elliptic, obtuse apically attenuate below into he petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on 1 to often 2, short, arching, 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, sparsely pubescent, sparsely 10 to more flowered inflorescence with reflexed,broadly elliptic, acute, as long as the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms Eria eberhardtii Gagnep. 1930; Pinalia bipunctata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Contribution to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975 as E eberhardtii; Opera Botanica #62 Orchid Genera in Thailand X Seidenfaden 1982 drawing good/photo ok; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo good; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Pinalia bipunctata; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 Pinalia bipunctata drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 as Pinalia bipunctata photos ok; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Taunggyi 2014 photo fide; Wild Orchids in Thailand 2 Vadhanaphuti 2014 photo good; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015 as Pinalia bipunctata; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 as Pinalia punctata photo fide;
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