Eria lamellata Ames 1912 SECTION Mycaranthes Collection Sheet by © Romero and The Filibot Website

Common Name The Mt Laminae Eria

Flower Size

Found on Davao and Leyte Islands in the Philippines at elevations of 660 to 1300 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with leafy, elongate, robust stems carrying leathery, narrowly lanceolate, acute leaves with flattened sheaths that blooms in the spring on up to 6, wooly, to 12" [30 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with minute, back bent, lanceolate, acute floral bracts.

Synonyms Mycaranthes lamellata (Ames) Cootes & W.Suarez 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981; Orchidiana Philippiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984;

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