Eria pulverulenta Guillaumin 1955 SECTION Dendrolirium
Photo by Charles Marden Fitch
Drawing by Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Dusted Eria [refers to the fine hairs on many parts of this orchid]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in southern Vietnam as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with globose to squat ovoid, puberulent pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, in youth puberulent, in maturity less so, oblong, unequally bilobed apically , narrowing below into an elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, puberulent, 8" [20 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence carrying nodding flowers.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Contribution to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #2 2009 photo fide
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