Eria latibracteata Ridl. 1896 SECTION Pinalia
Photo courtesy of Nik Fahmi and his Vortex Orchid Page
Common Name or Meaning The Broad Bract Eria
Flower Size .2" [7 mm]
Found in peninsular Malaysia and Borneo in hill forests at elevations of 500 to 600 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with rather slender stems carrying 3 to 4, apical, narrowing at both ends, leaves that blooms in the fall on a horizontal, 3.6" [9 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence with the flowers generally all facing upwards.
Often cited as a synonym of E braddoni but this one is older so it should have precedence
Synonyms Eria braddonii Rolfe 1907; Pinalia latibracteata [Ridl.] J.J. Wood 2011;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of the Malayan Penninsula Ridley 1908; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Flora of Malya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as E braddonii drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Eria braddonii; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Pinalia latibracteata photo good; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide
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