Eria discolor Lindl. 1858 SECTION Tylostylis

Plant in situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia Photos by © David Kuehn

LATE THROUGH LATE

Common Name The Different Colored Eria - In China Mei Zhu Lan

Flower Size .3" [.8 cm]

Found in Yunnan China, Sikkim, Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Penninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java and Sumatra in heath forests, hill forests and lower montane forests at elevations of 150 to 1160 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte, with 8 to 20" [20 to 50 cm] between each thicker in the middle, narrowing to both ends pseudobulbs carrying 4 to 6, near the apex, lanceolate, minutely and unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late winter through later spring on a lateral, apical, few flowered, erect to arching, pubescent, 1.2 to 3.2" [3 to 8 cm] long, racemose inflorescnece with broadly ovate-elliptic, pubescent, reflexed and overlapping towards the apex sheaths and broadly elliptic, pubescent floral bracts.

Synonyms *Callostylis rigida Blume 1825; Callostylis rigida subsp. discolor (Lindl.) Brieger 1981; Eria discolor Lindl. 1858; Eria pholidotoides Gagnep. 1931; Eria rigida (Blume) Rchb.f. 1857; Liparis bidentata Griff. 1851; Tylostylis discolor (Lindl.) Hook.f. 1895; Tylostylis rigida (Blume) Blume 1828

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 drawing fide; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Tylostylis discolor drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 drawing; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide as Callostylis rigida; Oasis Vol 1 No 4 2000; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000 as Callostylus rigida; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 as Callostylis rigida photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Callostylis gigida; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 as Callostylis rigida photos fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Callostylis rigida drawing/photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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