Eria dasypus Rchb.f. 1864
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Common Name or Meaning The Hairy Eria
Flower Size 3/8" [9mm]
Found in Myanamar with a short, cylindric pseudobulb completely enveloped by several dark red brown leaf bearing sheaths carrying 2 to 3, narrowly oblanceolate, abtuse, basally clasping leaves that blooms from the nodes near the apex of the cane with short 3 to 4 flowered, downy white inflorescence with inflated, broadly ovate, apiculate, brownish bracts.
Synonyms Pinalia dasypus (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1870 drawing fide; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995;
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