Eria vittata Lindl. 1859 SECTION Trichosma

Photo by © John Varigos and His Orchid webpage

Common Name The Striped Eria - In China Tiao Wen Mao Lan

Flower Size .65" [1.7 cm]

Found in Xizang and Yunnan provinces of China, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Myanmar and Thailand in woodlands with light shade at elevations of 1660 to 2800 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with distant to clustered, ovoid-conical to cylindric pseudobulbs partially enveloped by unequal brown sheaths and carrying 2, elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, tapering below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a racemose, terminal, decurved, 2.8 to 4" [7 to 10 cm] long, densely many flowered, glabrous inflorescence with minute, triangular, persistent floral bracts and carrying strongly fragrant, glabrous flowers

Synonyms Pinalia vittata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Indian Orchids: A Guide to Identification Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 633 - 752 Brieger 1981 photo plant only; Opera Botanica #62 Orchid Genera in Thailand X Seidenfaden 1982 drawing fide; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; 100 Sikkim Himalayan Orchids Pradhan 2005 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing good; A Century of New Orchid Records in Bhutan Royal Government of Bhutan 2017 drawing/photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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