Eria graciliscapa Rolfe 1905 SECTION Polyura

TYPE Drawing by © Ames and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Thin Inflorescence Eria

Flower Size

Found in the Philippines as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with terete, slender pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 4, terminal, lanceolate-oblong, subcoriaceous leaves that blooms on an axillary, slender, arcuate, [2.5 to 3" [6.75 to 7.5 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence and carrying very fragrant flowers.

Said by Rolfe to be similar to E tenuiflora but the pseudobulbs and inflorescence are much longer and thinner and the flowers have much narrower segments.

Synonyms Pinalia graciliscapa (Rolfe) J.J.Wood 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 1 Ames [Rolfe] 1905; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 2 Ames 1908; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 3 Ames 1908 drawing fide; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 7 Ormerod 2011 as Pinalia graciliscapa;

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