Eria iridifolia Hook.f. 1890 SECTION Mycaranthes Rchb.f Photo by © Art Vogel
Plant and Inflorescence in Situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia Photo by © David Kuehn
Common Name The Iris-Like Eria
Flower Size 3/8" to 2/5" [8 to 9mm]
Found in Borneo, Java, Peninsular Malaysia, Sulawesi & Sumatra in primary forest in main forks of trees at elevations of 700 to 1750 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte and occasional terrestrial in boundary between grassland and forests at higher elevations forming huge clumps, with a stout stem carrying up to 10, close set, basally clasping, stiff leaves that blooms in the spring on 3 to 4, terminal, 12" [30 cm] long, many densely flowered, brown pubescent inflorescence per growth with to 100, white pubescent flowers on each one
Synonyms Eria bidens Ridl. 1896; Eria latifolia [Bl.] Rchb.f 1857; Eria longispica Rolfe 1907; Mycaranthes latifolia Blume 1825; Pinalia iridifolia (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857 as E latifolia; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1891 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as E latifolia; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 as E latifolia drawing fide; Flora of Malaya Vol 1` Holttum 1957 as E latifolia drawing good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Eria latifolia; The Orchids Of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 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 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo good; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 8 2011 as Mycaranthes latifolia; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide
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