Eria dasyphylla Parish & Rchb. f. 1874
Plant Photos courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders
Plant and Flower in situ Thailand Photos byDavid Kuehn
Another Flower Photos by Patricia Harding
Photos by © Dr. E.F. de Vogel, Jaap Vermeulen, and André Schuiteman and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website Common Name The Hairy-Leafed Eria
Flower Size 3/8 to 1/2" [1 to 1.2 cm]
Found in Burma, India, Sikkim, Thailand to Laos and Vietnam in broadleaf, evergreen, lowland forests at elevations of 50 to 1800 meters as a dwarf, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an elongated creeping, fleshy rhizome carrying a pseudobulb with 2 to 3 apical, suborbicular, or elliptic, to obovate-elliptic, obtuse, bluish green, very hairy leaves that blooms on a terminal, short, terete, pilose, single flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute bracts with hairy flowers externally occuring in the summer. Mounted on tree fern, cork or hard coconut husk suits this miniature species as well as high humidity, good air circulation and constant year round water.
Synonyms Eria evrardii Gagnep. 1930; Pinalia dasyphylla (Parish & Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Trichotosia dasyphylla (Parish & Rchb. f.) Kraenzl. 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Miniature Orchids McQueen 1992 photo A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide;
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