Eria alba Lindl. 1830 SECTION Hymenaria Photo by © P. J. Cribb and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
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Common Name The White Eria
Flower Size 1/4 to .4" [.8 to 1 cm]
Found in the western Himalayas, eastern Himalayas and Nepal at elevations around 1400 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, warm to cold growing epiphytic orchid with ovoid to flask shaped, clustered, tapering at each end pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 6, linear-lanceoalte, acuminate, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, pubescent, racemose, 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm] long, laxly 5 to 8 flowered inflorescence with short, ovate, acute floral bracts and carrying sweetly scented flwors
Synonyms Octomeria alba (Lindl.) Wall. ex Hook.f. 1890; Pinalia leucantha Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 drawing fide; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 photo fide;
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