Eria punctata J.J.Sm. 1907 SECTION Urostachya
Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Spotted Eria
Flower Size .3" [7.5 mm]
Found in penninsular Malaysia, Java, Sumatra and Sabah Borneo in hill riverine forests at elevations around 500 to 1800 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with about .4" [1 cm] between each ovate-oblong, flattened pseudobulb enveloped by persistent, lanceolate, acute sheaths and and carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, terete, pale green, shortly hairy, to 4.4" [11 cm] long, to 8 to 11 flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate basally, obtuse, glabrous, pale green floral bracts and carrying flowers that do not open widely
Synonyms Pinalia punctata [J.J.SM.] J.J.Wood 2001;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1953; Orchids of Java J B Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids Of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; Orchids of Sumatra JB Comber 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Pinalia punctata photo fide
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