Eria kingii F.Muell. 1882 SECTION Hymenaria Photos by © J. B. Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Plant ensitu in New Guinea Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III
Common Name King's Eria - The Common Gremlin Orchid
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in the Moluccas, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Queensland Australia in lowland forests at elevations of sealevel to 650 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with thick, close set, fleshy pseudobulbs enveloped basally by large, conduplicate, triangular sheaths and carrying 3, linear-lanceolate, apically narrowed, narrowly obtuse, narrowing below ito the elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on 2 to 5, erect to horizontal, densely pubescent, densely many flowered, 5 to 7.6" [12.5 to 19 cm] long racemose inflorescence with several, adpressed, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, concave, pubescent bracts and reflexed, ovate to oblong, obtuse, pubescent floral bracts.
Synonyms Eria ambasiensis F.M.Bailey 1907; Eria hollandiae J.J.Sm. 1911; Eria inornata T.E.Hunt 1952; Eria linariiflora Rupp 1953; Eria moluccana Schltr. & J.J.Sm. 1905; Eria wollastonii Ridl. 1916; Hymeneria kingii (F.Muell.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Pinalia kingii (F.Muell.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1891 drawing fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Cribb & Wood 1994 excluded taxa; Lowland Orchids of Papua New Guinea O'Byrne 1994 drawing/photo ; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2005; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Pinalia kingii
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