Eria compressa (Blume) Blume 1856 SECTION Cylindrolobus

Inflorescence

Plant Photos by © Leicneagra and his The Orchids of Sumatra Blogsite

Part shade Cool LATER Spring

Common Name The Compressed Eria

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Java and Sumatra at elevations of 1500 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a hard and woody, elongate, erect becoming semi-pendulous stem carrying many, in the apical half, narrowly lanceolate, unequal and oblique apically leaves that blooms in the later spring on a lateral, often many, [6.7 to 10.8 cm] long, 3 to 10 flowered inflorescence with triangular ovate, yellow to light brown, acute floral bracts.

The plant and flowers in the photos is Eria compressa var. sumatrana.

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution.

Synonyms *Ceratium compressum Blume 1825; Cylindrolobus compressus (Blume) Brieger 1981; Eria compressa var. sumatrana J.J.Sm. 1920; Eria longicaulis Teijsm. & Binn. 1862; Pinalia compressa (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Trichotosia compressa (Blume) Kraenzl. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Atlas Figuren J.J.Sm. 1908 drawing fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 11 Schlechter/Brieger 1981 as Cylindrolobus compressus; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo ok; Orchids Of Sumatra Comber 2001; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2005 as Ceratium compressum; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2005 as Cylindrolobus compressus; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2005; Harvard Pap. Bot. 19: 79; A Synopsis of Eria Lindl. section Cylindrolobus (Blume) Lindl. (Orchidaceae: Eriinae) in Malesia Ormerod 2014; Harvard Pap. Bot. 19: 79; A Synopsis of Eria Lindl. section Cylindrolobus (Blume) Lindl. (Orchidaceae: Eriinae) in Malesia Ormerod 2014 as E compressa var sumatrana

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