Eria karikouyensis Schltr. 1906 Photo by © Edouard Faria

Flower and plant closeup Photo by © Societe' Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile

Common Name The Karikate' Eria [A province of southern New Caledonia]

Flower Size .12 to .16" [3 to 4 mm]

Found in New Caledonia as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte on rocks in streams with a chain of small, often leafless, ovoid, laterally compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, deciduous, elliptic, rounded apically leaf that blooms in the spring on a short single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Porpax karikouyensis (Schltr.) Schuit., Y.P.Ng & H.A.Pedersen 2018

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , *Contributions to the Knowledge of the Flora of New Caledonia Schlechter 1906; Contributions to the Knowledge of the Flora of Sumatra Schlechter 1911; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 drawing fide; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societie Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile 1995 photo fide;

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