Eria puakensis Ormerod 2014 SECTION Cylindrolobus Bl 1856

TYPE Drawing by Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 19: 79; A Synopsis of Eria Lindl. section Cylindrolobus (Blume) Lindl. (Orchidaceae: Eriinae) in Malesia Ormerod 2014

Common Name or Meaning The Puak Village Eria

Flower Size .2" [.5 mm]

Found in Kalimantan Borneo in primary forests with extremely wet, evergreen, epiphytic mosses and angiosperms at elevations around 1000 meters as a giant sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slightly compressed, elliptic in cross-section, pendulous, laxly many leaved stems carrying ligulate-lanceolate, acute, 11 veined, thinly coriaceous leaves with tubular, slightly compressed, smooth truncate leaf sheaths that blooms in the summer on a horizontal, peduncle to .52" [13 mm] long, provided with 3 to 4, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, very pale tan-peach bracts, rachis .28" [7 mm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence carrying white flowers spotted with lavender.

"This species resembles E. clemensorum florally but differs in having narrower leaves, larger (by ca. .2" [5 mm]) flowers, lower keels (the midkeel a pubescent ridge apically), and a pentagonal (vs. transversely elliptic-trapeziform) epichile." Ormerod 2014

Synonyms Cylindrolobus puakensis (Ormerod) J.J.Wood 2016

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Harvard Pap. Bot. 19: 79; A Synopsis of Eria Lindl. section Cylindrolobus (Blume) Lindl. (Orchidaceae: Eriinae) in Malesia Ormerod 2014 drawing fide; Malesian Orchid J. 17: 132 as Cylindrolobus puakenisis 2016;

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