Eria puguahaanensis Ames 1915 SECTION Pinalia

Another Flower Angle

Plant and Inflorescence Photos by © Ronnie Boos and The RV Orchid Talk Website

Full Shade Hot LATE Winter EARLY Summer

Common Name or Meaning The Puguahaa Eria [A town in Leyte near where the orchid is found]

Flower Size

Found only in the Philippines at elevations of sealevel to 60 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with elongate, branched, compact pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, linear-lanceolate, leaves that blooms in the late winter through early summer on a terminal, racemose, shorter than the leaves, 3,2 to 6" [8 to 15 cm] long, wooly white pubescent, several flowered inflorescnece with papery bracts and lanceolate floral bracts.

CAUTION I have no way of personally verifying this determination So please use with caution.

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

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmajor 1984;

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