Eria clausa King & Pantl. 1897 SECTION Trichosma Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

Part sun Cool to WarmLATEwinter to Spring

Common Name The Closed Flower Eria

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Bhutan, southern China and Vietnam in montane, humid, mossy, mixed and coniferous forests and primary montane forests at elevations of 500 to 2000 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial orchid with ovoid-ellipsoid, blunt apically, rugose pseudobulbs, enveloped below by fibrous sheaths and carrying 2, apical, elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, membraneous, grooved petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on a 1 to 2, terminal, racemose, 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm], laxly 5 to 9 flowered, slightly fractiflex inflorescence enveloped below by lanceolate, acute sheaths.

Synonyms Eria corneri var. clausa (King & Pantl.) A.N.Rao 1996

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2007

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