Eria bicolor Lindl.1830

Photo by © Wilfried Löderbusch

Common Name The Two-Colored Eria - Ceylon - The Lily of the Valley Orchid

Flower Size

Found in southern India and Sri Lanka at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with thick, fleshy, purplish-brown pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, apical, acute, strap-shaped leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, deep purple, many flowered inflorescence with bell shaped flowers.

Synonyms Pinalia bicolor (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Culture in Ceylon and the East Price 1918

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