Eria kaniensis Schltr. 1912 SECTION Eria Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Kani Eria [A range of Mountains in New Guinea]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands at elevations around 800 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with adecumbent, flexuous, villosus, rhizome giving rise to ovoid to ellipsoid, 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, apical, erect- patent to suberect, oblanceolate-elliptic, acute to shortly acuminate, attenuate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an axillary, thin, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, shorter to equal to the length of the leaves, ancipitous, laxly 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are pale yellow. He also states that this orchid is recognized easily by the completely undivided lip and the loose inflorescence with 2 edged stalks.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 Drawing fide; New Papusian Orchids J J Smith 1934 as E kaniensis var constricta; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2005

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