Eria acervata Lindl. 1851 SECTION Hymenaria

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Common Name or Meaning The Bundled Eria

Flower Size 3/5" [1.5 cm]

Found in Yunnan China, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of sealevel to 600 meters and primary montane forests at elevations of 900 to 3350 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ellipsoid to flask-like, grooved, flattened when closely clustered pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 5, oblanceolate-flaccid, obtuse to acute, pale green, many nerved leaves that blooms in the fall on a slender 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm] long, glabrous, several [15] flowered inflorescnence.

Synonyms Dendrobium seriatum Wall. ex Hook.f. 1890; Eria poilanei Gagnep. 1930; Pinalia acervata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2007