Eria euryloba Schltr. 1911 SECTION Hymeneria Photo by © Budi Haryatna and his Flicker Orchid Photo Page

Another Inflorescence Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Plant and flowers Photo by © Schlechter

Common Name or Meaning The Broad Lobed Eria

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in western Sumatra at elevations of 700 to 1700 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered stems carrying 3 to 4, thin, elliptic-lanceolate, more or less acute, narrowing towards the base leaves leaves that blooms in the fall from nodes near the apex of the stem, densely to 20 flowered, cylindrical, 2" [5 cm] long inflorescence with elliptic, more or less acute, deflexed floral bracts that are about as long as the ovary and carrying fragrant flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Contributions to the Knowledge of the Flora of Sumatra Schlechter 1911; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo good

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