Eria hyacinthoides [Bl.] Lindl. 1830

SECTION HymenariaPhoto by © Lourens Grobler

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders

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Common Name The Hyacinth-Like Bryobium

Flower Size about 4/5" [to about 2 cm]

A small sized, cool to hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte found in the Malaysian penninsula, Sumatra and Java at elevations of 500 to 1700 meters with clustered, oblong, basally sheathed pseudobulbs carrying narrow-lanceolate, petiolate leaves that are held in pairs towards the apex that blooms in the spring on to 2, erect, white fuzzy, shorter to 10" [to 25 cm], loosely many [20 to 40] flowered, racemose inflorescence with many fragrant [not nice] flowers.

Synonyms Bryobium hyacinthoides (Blume) Y.P.Ng & P.J.Cribb 2005; Dendrolirium ebulbe Blume 1825; *Dendrolirium hyacinthoides Blume 1825; Eria ebulbis Lindley 1830; Eria endymion Ridl. 1896; Pinalia ebulbis (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Pinalia hyacinthodes (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 11 1970 photo; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 as E hyacinthoides photo fide; 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 Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001 photo ok; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo ok; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Pinalia hyacynthioides; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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