Eria paniculata Lindl.1830 SECTION Mycaranthes

Inflorescence Photos by © Jay Pfahl

Another Flower Photo by © Karel & Alex Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Paniculate Eria

Flower Size

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, Bangladesh, the eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnama and Borneo? in mixed evergreen forests at elevations of 660 to 2300 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with caespitose, pendent, woody stems enveloped by tubular sheaths and carrying many all along the stem, linear to linear-oblong, acuminate, fleshy, subsessile to shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter through spring on 2 to 4, terminal, fasciculate to paniculate, wooly pubescent, 3" to 12.4" [7.5 to 31 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with acrid smelkling flowers

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution. This species and E monostachya have been crossed up as one for years but appears to be two different species with this one having a wide distribution throughout the Himalayas and SE Asia and E monostachya being confined to Sumatra and Java. I have done my best to sort them out but do not have the original drawing so cannot for sure.

Synonyms Callista floribunda (D.Don) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium floribundum D.Don 1825; Pinalia paniculata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as Eria paniculata drawing; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District, Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 as E paniculata drawing fide; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as E paniculata drawings fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok;

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