Eria lasiopetala (Willd.) Ormerod 1995 SECTION Dendrolirium Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Part shade Hot Cool Spring

Common Name The Shaggy Petaled Eria - In China Bai Mian Rong Lan

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in all the Himalayas, Guangdong and Hainan China, India, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Penninsular Malaysia, Java and Sumatra at elevations of 390 to 2100 meters in primary montane forests as a medium sized, hot to cool growing lithophyte or occasional terrestrial with a woody rhizome that has 1.6 to 2" betweeen each fusiform-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, furrowed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by membraneous sheaths and carrying 2 to 5, lanceolate-oblong, acute to acuminate, grooved petiolate base leaves that blooms in northern hemisphere in April on a lateral, basal, erect, racemose, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, subdesely 7 to 12 flowered, pubescent inflorescence with imbricate, ovate, acute sheaths and lanceolate, persistent, acute floral bracts.

This species and E albidotomentosa are closely related and may be synomonous but I have left them apart at this time.

Synonyms *Aerides lasiopetala Willd. 1805; Dendrobium pubescens Hook. 1824; Epidendrum flos-aeris J.König 1791; Epidendrum lasiopetalum (Willd.) Poir. 1810; Eria flava Lindl. 1830; Eria lanata Griff. 1851; Eria polystachya Wight 1851 ; Eria pubescens (Hook.) Lindl. ex Loudon 1830; Eria pubescens var. lanata (Griff.) Karth. 1989; Octomeria flava Wall. ex Steud. 1841; Octomeria pubescens (Hook.) Spreng. 1827; Pinalia pubescens (Hook.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985 as E pubescens; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991 as E pubescens; The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 as E pubescens drawing fide; Orchid Flora Of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 as E pubescens drawing fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 as E pubescens photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Dendrolirium lasiopetalum; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 as Dendrolirium lasiopetalum photos fide; The Wild Orchids of Hong Kong Barretto, Cribb and Gale 2011 as Dendrolirium lasiopetalum drawing/photo fide;

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