Eria neglecta Ridl1896

SECTION Cylindrolobus

Plant and Flower Photo by Dian Rahardjo ©,

Common Name The Neglected Eria

Flower Size .6" to .88" [1.5 to 2.2 cm]

Found in Thailand, Borneo, Malaya and Sumatra in mossy forestt on limestone, on trees by rivers and old mangoves at elevations of sealevel to 1400 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte on mossy limestone rocks with erect, basally terete, higer up swollen and flattened stems enveloped by 3 brown sheaths and carrying 2 apical, erect, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate leaves that blooms summer and fall on short, single flowered inflorescence arising towards the apex of the stem.

Synonyms Trichosma neglectum (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Flora Of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchid Of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shin & Wood 1994; Orchid Of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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