Eria microchila Ames 1922 SECTION Pinalia Collection Sheet by © Ames and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part shade Cool LATEWinter EARLY Spring

Common Name The Small Lip Eria

Flower Size

Found on northern Luzon within the Philippines in mossy forests at elevations around 1530 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with wrinkled, tapering stems carrying towards the apex, 5 to 7, tapering at both ends, acute, obliquely erect leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on axillary, to 6" [15 cm] long, brown hairy, loosely many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Pinalia microchila (Ames) W.Suarez & Cootes 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Ames 1922; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984;

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