Eria lasiorhiza Schltr. 1911 SECTION Conchidium Photo by © Art Vogel

Common Name The Shaggy Root Eria

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in Sumatra in montane forests at elevations around 1100 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing terrestrial with very small, almost globose pseduobulbs carrying 2, apical, elliptic, shortly acuminate, narrowing below into the very short petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, thin, glabrous, 1" [2.5 cm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflroescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002 drawing ok

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