Eria ramosa Ames 1925 SECTION Pinalia Collection sheet by Ames and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Branched Eria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found on Luzon within the Philippines at elevations around 1700 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a branching, woody, weak stem carrying narrowly lanceolate, crowded, leathery, unequally bilobed apically, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a brown hairy, arising on shortened growths from an elongate primary leafless stem, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Eria vagans Ames 1922; Pinalia ramosa (Ames) W.Suarez & Cootes 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Ames 1922 as E vagans; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984;

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