Eria muscicola (Lindl.) Lindl. 1859 SECTION Conchidium

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Pierre Bonnet from the Orchis project website

Common Name The Moss-Growing Eria - In China Wang Qiao Ge Lan

Flower Size .2" to 1/4" [3 to 6mm]

Found in western Himalayas, Asaam, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Sri Lankha, Thailand, Myanamar, Laos and Vietnam in evergreen broad-leaved forests on trees or rocks at elevations of 1330 to 3000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte with caespitose, depressed globose, reticulate pseduobulbs carrying 2 to 4, oblanceolate, apiculate, shortly petiolate leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, glabrous, racemose, secund, 1.25" [3.2 cm] long, 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence with 1 to 2 ovate-lanceolate, acute sheaths and lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms Conchidium muscicola (Lindl.) Rauschert 1983; Dendrobium muscicola Lindl. 1830; Dendrobium multicaule Teijsm. & Binn. 1866; Dendrobium parviflorum D.Don 1825; Eria muscicola var. brevilinguis J.Joseph & V.Chandras. 1976; Eria muscicola var. oblonga Trimen 1895; Pinalia muscicola (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Oasis Vol 1 No 4 2000; The Orchids of Nepal Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Conchidium musicola; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 as Conchidium musicola photos fide;

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