Eria tridens Ames 1912 SECTION Aeridostachya Photo courtesy of David Banks, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name or Meaning The Three Toothed Eria

Flower Size .24 to .32" [6 to 8 mm]

Found only in the Philippines at elevations up to 1000 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with close set, short, stoutly fusiform, widest below the middle pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, arching, linear-lanceolate, 5 veined, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms on up to 3, arching white pubescent, many [35] flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Pinalia tridens (Ames) W.Suarez & Cootes 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 as Pinalia tridens

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