Eria sordida Ridl. 1917 SECTION Hymenaria
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Leicneagra and The Wild Orchids of Sumatra Website
Common Name or Meaning The Dirty Brown Eria
Flower Size
Found in western Sumatra at elevations around 1370 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with ascending, more or less terete stems carrying elliptic-lanceoalte, acuminte, narrowing basally into flat petiolate base leaves that blooms on an axillary, scurfy, 1" [2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with about 4, ovate, acute floral bracts and sparsely hairy pedicels.
CAUTION I have no way of personally verifying this determination so please use with caution!!
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001;
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