Eria profusa Lindl. 1841 SECTION Pinalia Photo courtesy of David Banks, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

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Common Name or Meaning The Profuse Eria [refers to the quantity of flowers]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found only in the Philippines at elevations of 100 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered oval pseudobulbs enveloped basally by papery, dry sheaths and carrying 2 to 4, lanceolate leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an arching, to 15" [37.5 cm] long, many [70] flowered, brown pubescent, light green inflorescence.

Synonyms Pinalia profusa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 67 No 3 2002 photo Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 as Pinalia profusa photo good;

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