Eria wariana Schltr. 1912 SECTION Cylindrolobus

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

EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The Waria River Eria [A river in New Guinea]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 200 meters as a giant sized, hot growing epiphyte with elongate, flexuous, minutely puberulis,densely leafy stems carrying erect-patent, linear-lanceolate, obliquely subacute, glabrous leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on lateral, shoret, single flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, glabrous floral bracts.

Synonyms Cylindrolobus warianus (Schltr.) Brieger 1981; Trichotosia wariana (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt 1971

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Achlechter 1012 drawing fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 633 - 752 Brieger 1981 as Cylindrolobus wariana drawing fide; Harvard Pap. Bot. 19: 79; A Synopsis of Eria Lindl. section Cylindrolobus (Blume) Lindl. (Orchidaceae: Eriinae) in Malesia Ormerod 2014

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