Eria floribunda Lindl. 1828 SECTION Urostachya

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Part shadeHotCoolSpring

Common Name Floriferous Eria - In China Ni Mao Lan

Flower Size 1/4" [55 mm]

Found in Burma, Penninsular Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysian penninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the Philippines in primary montane forests as a small to medium szied, hot to cool growing epiphyte on large trees along streams at elevations of 500 to 2400 meters with erect, stem-like, narrowly ellipsoid pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 5, apical, linear-lanceolate to elliptic, acute, soft leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, 8" [20 cm] long, densely many flowered, racemose inflorescence that arise, several at a time, from the nodes on the upper half of the pseudobulb. Plant in a pot with med fine bark and treefern mix and give bright shade with a regular weekly fertilizing while growing and a lessening when not. Even watering while growing and a lessening as well with the cessation of growth.

CAUTION As I do not have any references that pinpoint a determination, please use with caution.

Synonyms Eria euryantha Schltr. 1911; Eria giungii Guillaumin 1953; Eria leucostachya Lindl. 1848; Eria subaliena Gagnep. 1930; Pinalia floribunda (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Urostachya euryantha (Schltr.) Brieger 1981 ; Urostachya floribunda (Lindl.) F.G.Brieger 1981

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing ?; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo ok; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 3 2004; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Mycaranthes floribunda; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 as Mycaranthes floribunda photos fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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