Eria odontoglossa Schltr. 1911 SECTION Aeridostachya TYPE Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Toothed Tongue Eria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in western Sumatra without elevational data as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with narrowly oblong leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, peduncle and rachis about the same length, brown-hairy, 10 to 10.8" [25 to 27 cm] long, cylindrical, to .8" [2 cm] wide, curved, densely many flowered inflorescnece with minute, ovate, much shorter than the ovary floral bract.
Synonyms Aeridostachya odontoglossa (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Contributions to the Knowledge of the Flora of Sumatra Schlechter 1911; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001 drawing fide;
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