Eria carinata Gibson 1845 SECTION Xiphosium

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Part sun Warm to CoolFallEARLYWinter

Common Name The Keeled Eria

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam in humid, mossy, mixed and coniferous forests at elevations of 1000 to 2300 meters as a cool to warm growing lithophyte and occasional epiphyte, with a stout or slender rhizome carrying ovoid-oblong, sulcate pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, elliptic-oblong, acute, thickly coriaceous, stoutly petiolate leaf and blooms in the fall and early winter on an axillary, 6 to 12" [15 to 30 cm] long, 4 to 5 flowered inflorescence with imbricate, basal, sword shaped sheaths and linear-lanceolate, equitant floral bracts. .

Synonyms Eria fordii Rolfe 1886; Eria rosea Wall. 1828; Pinalia carinata (Gibson) Kuntze 1891; Xiphosium acuminatum Griff. 1845

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002

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