Ascidieria pseudocymbiformis (J.J.Wood) J.J.Wood 2011

Common Name The False Boat Shaped Eria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Sabah and Sarawak Borneo in lower montane mossy forests at elevations around 1000 to 2100 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with elongate stems enveloped by imbricate, acute, scarious edged, green sheaths with the lowermost densely mottled and spotted purple and carrying above 3 to 5, apical, coriaceous, spreading to arcuate, linear-ligulate to ligulate-ensiform, obliquely acute, conduplicate below leaves that blooms in the winter and spring and again in the summer on an axillary, erect to porrect, subdense to dense, many flowered inflorescence with ovate acute bracts and triangular-ovate, acute, glabrous, reflexed floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers with sometimes a bitter scent

This species is most distinguished from Ascidieria cybiformis by the elongate stem. The form var hirsuta differs form the type by the resupinate flowers and the densely hirsute inflorescence.

Synonyms Eria cymbidifolia var. longipes Carr 1935; Eria pseudocymbiformis J.J.Wood 1984; Eria pseudocymbiformis var. hirsuta J.J.Wood 1990

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 as Eria pseudocymbiformis photo hmm; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 as E pseudocymbidiformis var hirsuta; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as E cymbidiformis var hirsute; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001; Orchids of Borneo Vol 4 Wood 2003 drawing fide; Orchids of Borneo Vol 4 Wood 2003 as E pseudocymbiformis var hirsuta drawing fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 9 2012 photo fide

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