Eria albidotomentosa [Bl.] Lindl. 1830 SECTION Dendrolirium Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Inflorescence and Plant Photo courtesy of Nik Fahmi Vortex Orchid Pages
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Common Name The Downy-White Eria
Flower Size 1 1/4" [3.2 cm]
A musky scented, small sized, warm to hot growing epiphyte or terrestrial in poor soil and light shade found on the island of Java as well as Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Sumatra and the Malaysian penninsula in evergreen lowland forests at elevations of 50 to 1500 meters with pseudobulbs that carry 3 to 4, lanceolate, tough, leathery leaves that blooms on a basal, erect to arcuate, to 8 to 12" [20 to 30cm] long, many [8 to 15] flowered, racemose inflorescence having a few scale like bracts with wool like hairs covering them and occuring in the fall. Cited as a synonym of Eria lasiopetala but although there are similarities I feel that there are many differences and I will leave them separate for now.
Synonyms Dendrobium albidotomentosum Bl. 1825; *Dendrolirium albidotomentosum Blume 1825; Pinalia albidotomentosa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1865 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing photo; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 as E pubescens drawing?; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 as E pubescens photo fide;
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