Eria dischorensis Schltr. 1912 SECTION Xiphosium Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part Shade Cool LATE Fall EARLY Winter

Common Name The Dischore Eria [A mountain range in New Guinea]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea and Queensland Australia at elevations around 1200 meters as a miniature to just small sized, cool growing epiphyte with flexuous, puberulous, rhizome giving rise to somewhat spaced, oblong, compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, erect, elliptic-ligulate, obtuse, narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, lateral, thin, minutely stellate puberulous, laxly 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are white lightly dotted with red

Synonyms Bryobium dischorense (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Bryobium intermedium (Dockrill) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2005; Eria intermedia Dockrill 1965

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 Drawing fide;

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