Eria ornata (Blume) Lindl. 1830 SECTION Dendrolirium
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Photo by Dale and Deni Borders
Photo by André Schuiteman, courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
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Common Name The Ornate Eria
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in the Himalayas, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Java and the Philippines in lower montane forests on limestone hills at elevations of 300 to 1500 meters as a rare, small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte that is with dark brown, stiff, woody roots arising from laterally compressed, cylindrical pseudobulbs each separated by 6" [15 cm] and enveloped by basal sheaths carrying 3 to 5 fleshy, elliptic-lanceolate to oblong, acute, narrowing basally into an open channelled petiolate base leaves with the uppermost two being more persistent that blooms in the spring and summer on a ascending or arching, 18" [45 cm] long, several to many flowered racemose inflorescence that has brown hairs and large ovate-lanceolate, orange to red brown bracts and carrying flowers that have a fragrance of vanilla and do not open well.
Synonyms *Dendrolirium ornatum Blume 1825; Eria armeniaca Lindley 1841; Pinalia ornata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Trias ornata (Blume) Mason 1860
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 1 Ames 1905; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 2 Ames 1908; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Eria armeniaca; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Contribution to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 633 - 752 Brieger 1981 as Dendrolirium ornatum photo ok; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981; Opera Botanica #62 Orchid Genera in Thailand X Seidenfaden 1982 drawing good; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing/photo fide; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombat 1992 photo fide; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shim & Wood 1994 drawing/photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Botanica's Orchids Lauren Glen 2002 photo good; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2005 as Dendrolirium ornatum; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2005; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 as Dendrolirium ornatum photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Dendrolirium ornatum drawing fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Dendrolirium ornatum drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #2 2016 drawing fide;
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