Eria montana Schltr. 1919 SECTION Xiphosium Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Montane Eria

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 800 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with flexuous, papillose-puberulous, rhizome giving rise to closely spaced, narrowly oblong, somewhat compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, erect to suberect, lanceolate-ligulate, obtuse, unequally bilobed apcailly, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, lateral, thin, minutely stellate puberulous, 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long, 8 to 15 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are white with pink spots

Synonyms Eria oreogena Schltr. 1912; Eria takadui Schltr. 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Eria oreogena Drawing fide;

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