Eria lamonganensis Rchb. f. 1857 SECTION Hymeneria Photo by © Art Vogel

Another Flower? Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Lamonga Eria [Area in Java]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Java and Sumatra in humid foothill forests at elevations of 420 to 1500 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with close set pseudobulbs with 2 to 4, acute, lanceolate, soft leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on 2, apical, racemose, 4" [20 cm] long, brown pubescent, many [18] flowered inflorescence with large, alanceolate, pale green, refexed downwards bracts held parallel to the rachis. This species differs from the very similar E xanthochiela by having very close set stems, a large patch of irregular calli at the base of the red or orange midlobe of the lip and has short, ovate floral bracts and the side lobes of the lip are short, triangular, and have a rounded top.

Synonyms Eria carnea Ridl. 1909; Eria jagoriana Kraenzl. 1910; Eria lamornganensis Mispelling; Eria tenggerensis J.J.Sm. 1914

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide for first photo; The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide;

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