Eria graminea Ridl. 1917 SECTION Cylindrolobus Photo by © Pieter C Brouwer and his P-Base Orchid photo Website

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Art Vogel

Common Name or Meaning The Grass-Like Eria

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in western Sumatra to Borneo in lower montane ridge forests at elevations around 700 to 2200 meters as a warm to cool growing epiphyte with close set stems carrying linear, sessile, apically unequally bidentate leaves that blooms in the fall on a to [6mm] long, single flowered inflorescence with 4, ovate, gradually acuminate, sessile bracts .

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution. Both the pictured orchids were from Sulawesi which is not in any reference as a location for this orchid.

Synonyms Cylindrolobus gramineus (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001

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