Eria cycloglossa Schltr. 1912 SECTION Polyura

Inflorescence Photos by © Art Vogel

Common Name The Round Tongued Eria

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea in montane forests on trees at elevations around 450 meters as a hot growing epiphyte with an elongate rhizome giving rise to cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying 5 to6 erect-patent, elliptic-ligulate, acute, narrowly subpetillate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a lateral from the side of the pseudobulb, erect-patent, subdensely many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Pinalia cycloglossa [Schlechter] Ormerod 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing so/so; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 7 2011 as Pinalia cycloglossa;

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