Eria siamensis Schltr. 1906 SECTION Secundae Photo by © www.orchidphoto.com
Plant and Inflorescence Photos by © Kurt Keller
Common Name The Thai Eria
Flower Size .2" [4mm]
Found in Myanmar?, Thailand and Vietnam at elevations of 500 to 2000 meters as small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with cylindrical, to fusiform stems carrying 2, apical, elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the summer a 6" [15 cm] long, white wooly, many flowered inflorescence with triangular, acuminate-acute floral bracts
Said to be a synonym of E stricta but this one seems quite different. The petals are half as broad as E stricta, the midlobe is as long as broad at the base or slightly longer and is very recurved. The inflorescence of E siamensis is white wooly while E stricta is sparsely hairy and the floral bracts are larger, triangular and acute-acuminate.
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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; Opera Botanica #62 Orchid Genera in Thailand X Seidenfaden 1982 drawing/photo fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vadhannaphuti 2001 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Taunggyi 2014 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 82 #2 2018 Photo fide
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