Eria stenophylla Schltr. 1912 SECTION Mycaranthes Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Slim Leaved Eria

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1200 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with flexuous, glabrous rhizome giving rise to simple, strict to substrict, terete leafy pseudobulbs carrying erect-patent, fleshy, incurved margins, linear, acute leaves that blooms in the fall on 1 to 2, apical, erect, shorter than the leaves, sublaxly 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are white with a red spotted lip.

Synonyms Eria stenophylla var. homoglossa Schltr. 1912; Mycaranthes stenophylla (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 Drawing fide; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Eria stenophylla var. homoglossa; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2005

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