Eria longirepens Ridl. 1896 SECTION Cylindrolobus Photo by © Art Vogel

Common Name The Far Crawling Eria

Flower Size

Found in Penninsular Malaysia and Borneo on mangroves and lowland Kerangas forests at elevtions of sea level to 100 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a long creeping fleshy rhizome with 4.8 to 7.2" [12 to 18 cm] between each erect stem carrying 3 to 4, elliptical, distinctly petiolate base leaves that blooms on a on the stem or betweeen the leaves, short inflorescence with large pink bracts at the base

Synonyms Cylindrolobus longirepens (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983; Dendrobium beccarianum (Kraenzl.) Masam. 1942; Katherinea beccariana (Kraenzl.) A.D.Hawkes 1956; Sarrcopodium beccarianum Kraenzl. 1910

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001

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