Eria virginalis Schltr. 1910 SECTION Cylindrolobus Bl 1856

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Deep shade Hot Fall

Common Name The Colorful Eria

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Borneo in riverine forests at elevations around 300 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect, cylindrical stems carrying towards the apex, 4 or so, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, short few flowered inflorescence with large floral bracts.

Synonyms Cylindrolobus virginalis (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983; Eria pleistophylla (Kraenzl.) A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller 1957; Trichotosia pleistophylla Kraenzl. 1911; Trichotosia virginalis (Schltr.) Kraenzl. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood 1994; Harvard Pap. Bot. 19: 79; A Synopsis of Eria Lindl. section Cylindrolobus (Blume) Lindl. (Orchidaceae: Eriinae) in Malesia Ormerod 2014

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