Eria andamanica Hook.f. 1890 Photo courtesy of Survey of the Natural Resources of Andaman Islands Website

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Blumea 103 and his Andaman Islands Orchid Website

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Common Name The Andaman Island Eria

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

Found in the Andaman Islands as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with thickly ellipsoid, scarred, subcompressed pseudobulb carrying lanceolate, shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later summer through fall on a basal, 3 to 4" [7.5 to 10 cm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Pinalia andamanica (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1890 drawing fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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