Eria coronaria (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1861 SECTION Trichosma Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

Fragrance Part sun Warm to Cool Spring

Common Name The Crowned Lip Eria

Flower Size about 2" [about 5 cm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanamar, Thailand, southern China and Vietnam in semi-deciduous and evergreen forests at elevations of 500 to 2300 meters as a miniature to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophtye on mossy limestone rocks with fleshy, naked, narrowly cylindric pseudobulbs that are pea-green becoming ash-gray and blackening with age carrying a few, lax, pubescent, basal sheaths and 2 apical, broadly lanceolate, coriaceous to fleshy, smooth, pale green leaves all arising from a subterranean soft rhizome. The 2, towards the apex, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous leaves give rise to a terminal, erect or arching, loosely 3 to 6 flowered, 6" [15 cm] long, inflorescence with large, narrowly lanceolate floral bracts and several [2 to 6] fragrant, waxy, slightly nodding flowers that blooms in the spring.

Synonyms *Coelogyne coronaria Lindl.1841; Dendrobium crepidatum Griff. 1851; Eria cylindripoda Griff. 1851; Eria suavis (Lindl.) Lindl. 1859; Trichosma coronaria (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Trichosma coronaria (Lindl.) Brieger 1981; Trichosma cylindropoda Griff. 1851; Trichosma suavis Lindl. 1842

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 1 1958; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 5 1958 drawing as Trichosma suavis; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as SECTION Cylindrolobus; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Oasis Vol 1 No 4 2000; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Australian Orchid Review Vol 67 No 3 2002 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 72 No 4 2007 photo; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide;

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