Eria propinqua Ames 1922 SECTION Aeridostachya Photo by © Jim Cootes and The Phyto Images Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name or Meaning The Closely Related Eria

Flower Size .28" [7 mm]

Found only on Mindoro and Mindanao Islands of the Philippines at elevations around 600 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect short stems carrying 2 to 3, apical, leathery, narrowly lanceolate, loosely sheathed leaves that blooms on an erect, arching towards the apex, pubescent, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Pinalia propinqua (Ames) W.Suarez & Cootes 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Ames 1922; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Native Philippine Orchid Species Cootes 2011 as Aeridostachya propinqua photo fide;

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