Eria paniculata Lindl.1830 SECTION Mycaranthes
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Karel & Alex Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website
Photo by Seidenfaden
Common Name or Meaning The Paniculate Eria
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, Bangladesh, the eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Borneo? in mixed evergreen forests at elevations of 660 to 2300 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with caespitose, pendent, woody stems enveloped by tubular sheaths and carrying many all along the stem, linear to linear-oblong, acuminate, fleshy, subsessile to shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter through spring on 2 to 4, terminal, fasciculate to paniculate, wooly pubescent, 3" to 12.4" [7.5 to 31 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with acrid smelling flowers
CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution. This species and E monostachya have been crossed up as one for years but they appear to be two different species with this one having a wide distribution throughout the Himalayas and SE Asia and E monostachya being confined to Sumatra and Java. I have done my best to sort them out but do not have the original drawing so cannot for sure.
Synonyms Callista floribunda (D.Don) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium floribundum D.Don 1825; Mycaranthes floribunda (D.Don) S.C.Chen & J.J.Wood 2009; Pinalia paniculata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 drawing good; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Contribution to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975; Indian Orchids: A Guide to Identification Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Opera Botanica #62 Orchid Genera in Thailand X Seidenfaden 1982 drawing fide/photo good; AOS Orchids of Arunachal Pradesh Hegde 1984; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo ok; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District, Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 as E paniculata drawing fide; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001 photo ok; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 photo fide; 100 Sikkim Himalayan Orchids Pradhan 2005 photo fide; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as E paniculata drawings fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo ok; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Mycaranthes floribunda ; Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 as Mycaranthes floribunda drawing ok; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013 ; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Taunggyi 2014 photo hmm; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 as Mycaranthes paniculata photo fide;
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