Eria farinosa Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920 SECTION Mycaranthes Rchb.f. 1857

Drawing by © Chan Chew Lun & Shim Phyau Soon

Collection sheet by © J Beaman

Common Name The Flour Carrying Eria

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Sabah Borneo on Mt Kinabalu in lower montane forests at elevations around 1200 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a terte, woody rhizome giving rise to a suberect, stem enveloped completly by leaf sheaths carrying lowermost and uppermost smallest, distichous, linear, gradually narrowing into the obtuse apex, obliquely and obtusely bilobed, thick, coriaceous, many nerved above, only midnerve prominent beneath leaves that blooms in the fall on 1 to 2, very slender, suberect, usually much longer than the leaves, to 8" [20 cm] long, racis densly white tomentose, many flowered inflorescence and carrying greenish yellow flowers

Synonyms Mycaranthes farinosa (Ames & C.Schweinf.) J.J.Wood 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae 6: 122 Ames & C.Schweinf 1920; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Mycaranthes farinosa Drawing fide

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