Eria unifolia J.J.Sm. 1905 SECTION Aeridostachya Hkr.f.
Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Single Leaved Eria
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in Java and Sumatra in sheltered places with year-round rainfall, in thick humus on tree forks at elevations of 1500 to 2100 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with close set, oblong, flattened pseudobulbs enveloped by 4 large, leaf-like, imbricate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, tough, hard, narrowly lanceolate, acute leaf that blooms in the spring on a erect becoming arching, longer than the leaf, to 22" [to 55 cm] long, successively densely many flowered inflorescence with about 2/3's of the flowers open at any one time.
Synonyms Aeridostachya unifolia (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide
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