Eria fitzalanii F.Muell. 1882 SECTION Hymenaria Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

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Common Name Fitzalan's Eria [Australian Orchid Collector late 1800's] - The Common Fuzz Orchid

Flower Size 1/4" [6 mm]

Found in New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Queensland Australia in lowland forests at elevations of sealevel to 750 meters as a medium to just large sized, hot growing epiphyte with cylindrical, laterally slightly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 clasping sheaths that soon dry out and carrying 2 to 4 apical, erect to horizontal, narrowly elliptic-ligulate, narrowly obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on a erect to horizontal, densely 5 to 35 flowered, to 7.2" [to 18 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising from the nodes near the apex of the stem with scale-like leaves and reflexed, elliptic, narrwoly obtuse floral bracts that are half or less as long as the ovary

Synonyms Bryobium indivisum (Schltr.) J.J.Wood 2005; Eria dolichocarpa Schltr. 1911; Eria indivisa Schltr. 1912; Eria solomonensis Rolfe 1909; Hymeneria fitzalanii (F.Muell.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Pinalia fitzalanii (F.Muell.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2005 Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing/photo ?; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Hymeneria fitzlanii

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