Eria curranii Leav. 1909 SECTION PinaliaCollection Sheet by © Oakes Ames and The Flickriver Website

Part shade Warm Cool LATEWinter EARLY Spring

Common Name Curran's Eria [American Orchidist within the Philippines late 1800's early 1900's]

Flower Size

Found on Palawan island within the Philippines as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, lanceolate-oblong, rounded apically leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, rachis sparsely hairy, 6" [15 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescencce

Synonyms Pinalia curranii (Leav.) W.Suarez & Cootes 2009

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

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