Eria hawkesii A.H.Heller 1957 SECTION Mycaranthes

Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name Hawkes' Eria [American Botanist and Author 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 700 to 900 meters as a medium to large sized, warm growing epiphyte with an elongate, flexuous, glabrous rhizome giving rise to simple, generally curved, terete pseudobulbs carrying glabrous, coriaceous, linear to lanceolate-linear, acute leaves that blooms in the late fall and winter on 2 to 5, apical, as long as to shorter than the leaves, white stellate-tomentose hairy, 3 to 8" [7.5 to 20 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are white with a pink spotted lip and brown red anther hump.

Synonyms Eria bifalcis Schltr. 1912; Eria bifalcis var. subnormalis Schltr. 1912; Eria hawkesii var. subnormalis (Schltr.) A.H.Heller 1957; Mycaranthes bifalcis Brieger 1981; Mycaranthes hawkesii (A.H.Heller) Rauschert 1983;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Eria bifalcis Drawing fide; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Eria bifalcis var. subnormalis; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 633 - 752 Brieger 1981 as Mycaranthes bifalcis drawing fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001 as E bifalcis; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2005 as as Mycaranthes bifalcis;

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