Eria densa Ridl. 1895 SECTION Urostachya Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Dense Eria

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Thailand, penninsular Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra from montane forests and in lowlands at elevations of 1300 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with tall thick, cylindrical stems with a few to 4, apical, lanceolate to strap-shaped, thin but tough, gradually narrowing below into the indistinct petiolate base leaves and can bloom at most any time but mostly in the summer with several, to 7.2" [18cm] long, racemose, arching, densely numerous flowered inflorescence arising from the nodes near the apex of the stem

Synonyms Pinalia densa [Ridl] J.J.Wood 2011; Urostachya densa (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo ok; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo ok; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Pinalia densa drawing/photo ok; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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