Eria truncata Lindl. 1858 SECTION Cylindrolobus

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Part shade Cool Winter

Common Name The Truncated Eria

Flower Size 1/2" [1.3 cm]

Found in Myanmar, Thailand and Laos at elevations of 1200 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with thin, erect, several noded stems carrying 3, apical, narrowly lanceolate, acute, basally narrowing leaves that blooms in the winter on a short 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Cylindrolobus truncatus (Lindl.) Rauschert 1983; Eria chrysobractea Schltr. 1912; Eria trilamellata Rolfe 1913; Pinalia truncata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Trias truncata (Lindl.) Mason 1860

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections photo good; 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 Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013

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