Eria pachyphylla Aver. 2002 SECTION Pinalia
Photos by © Chu Xuan Canh and The Hoa Lan Vietnam Website
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Common Name The Broad Leaved Eria in China Hou Ye Ping Lan
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces of China, Laos and Vietnam on tree trunks or rocks at elevations of 300 to 700 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with cylindric, several noded pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4, apical, thickly coriaceous, narrowly oblong leaves that blooms in the spring on a solitary, racemose, usually arising from the middle of the stem, to 9.6" [24 cm] long, densely brown tomentose, many flowered inflorescence with large, brown to yellow green floral bracts.
Synonyms Eria crassifolia Z.H.Tsi & S.C.Chen 1994; Pinalia pachyphylla (Aver.) S.C. Chen & J.J. Wood 2009
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997 photo fide as Eria crassifolia; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 as E crassifolia photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 as E crassifolia photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Pinalia pachyphylla; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 as Pinalia pachyphylla photo fide;
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