Bryobium eriaeoides (F.M.Bailey) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002 Photo by Mark Clements Copyright © 2009,
Flower Closeup Photos by © Daniel Mercer and Tree Fern Orchids
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Common Name or Meaning The Eria-Like Bryobium The Brittle Urchin Orchid
Flower Size .18" [4 mm]
Found in New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Queensland Australia at e3levations of 20 to 1000 meters on rocks and trunks of trees often close to streams as a small to just medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with 1 to 2 cm between each cylindrical pseudobulb carrying 2 apical, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acute to subacute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on a racemose, erect, 10 to 20 flowered, 1.6 to 2.8" [4 to 7 cm] long inflorescence.
Synonyms Bryobium diphyllum (Schltr.) J.J.Wood 2005; Callista eriaeoides (F.M.Bailey) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium eriae F.Muell. 1889; *Dendrobium eriaeoides F.M.Bailey 1888; Eria clausa J.J.Sm. 1919; Eria diphylla Schltr. 1912; Eria eriaeoides (F.M.Bailey) Rolfe 1909; Eria lorentziana J.J.Sm. & Kraenzl. 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as E clausa drawing hmm; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlecter 1912 as Eria diphylla; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 as Eria eriaeoides drawing ?
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