Eria imitans Schltr. 1912 SECTION Goniorhabdos Photos by Dr Ed de Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Common Name or Meaning The Imitative Eria

Flower Size 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm]

Found in New Guinea in lowland forests on trees at elevations around 300 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with ovoid-cylindrical, 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying 3 apical, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the fall on a 12" [30 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the newest pseudobulb with erect-patent, subimbricate, acuminate, ovate-elliptic bracts

Can easily be confused with Eria ramuana but differs in the all over violet mid lobe with 2 subparellel lighter colored bars and less rounded side lobes and a deflexed rounded apex of the lip.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/85 drawing good; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo not = Eria ramuana; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 photo not = E ramuana

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