Eria ornata (Blume) Lindl. 1830 SECTION Dendrolirium Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Closeup Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders
Another Flower Angle Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Inflorescence Photo by Peter Maxwell
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Common Name The Ornate Eria
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
A small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte that is a rare species from the Himalayas, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Java and the Philippines in lower montane forests at elevations of 300 to 1500 meters with dark brown, stiff, woody roots arising from laterally compressed, cylindrical pseudobulbs each separated by 6" [15 cm] and enveloped by basal sheaths carrying 3 to 5 fleshy, elliptic-lanceolate to oblong, narrowing basally into an open channelled petiole, acute leaves with the uppermost two being more persistent and that blooms in the spring and summer on a ascending or arching, 18" [45 cm] long, several to many flowered racemose inflorescence that has brown hairs and large ovate-lanceolate, orange to red brown bracts and carrying flowers that have a fragrance of vanilla and do not open well.
Synonyms *Dendrolirium ornatum Blume 1825; Eria armeniaca Lindley 1841; Pinalia ornata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing/photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shim & Wood 1994 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Orchids of Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Dendrolirium ornatum drawing fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Dendrolirium ornatum drawing/photo fide
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