Eria pandurata Schltr.1912 SECTION Polyura

Plant and Flowers Photos by Wolfgang Bandisch © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Common Name or Meaning The Lute-Shaped Eria

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea in forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 4 to 6, erect-patent, ligulate to elliptic-ligulate, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a lateral, erect-patent, subdensely many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Pinalia pandurata [Schltr] Ormerod 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 7 2011 as Pinalia pandurata

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