Eria meghasaniensis (S.Misra) S.Misra 1989

TYPE Photo by © Sarat Misra and The Similipal Tiger Reserve Website

Common Name The Meghasani Eria [An area in the state of Odisha India]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Odisha India in semi evergreen moist montane forests at elevations of 1100 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with clavate-fusiform, laterally compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4, apical, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowing below into the articulate sheathing base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on 1 to 3, erect, subterminal, peduncla to .8" [2 cm] long, greenish white, rachis to 3.8" [9.5 cm] long, 10 to 16 flowered inflorescence with slightly longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms *Eria bilobulata subsp. meghasaniensis S.Misra 1988

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing/photo fide

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