Eria perpusilla Parish & Rchb. f. 1874 SECTION Conchidium
Plant and Flowers Photo by © Linda & Mikael Karlbom
Plant and Flowers in situ Thailand Photos by David Kuehn ©
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Common Name The Tiny Eria
Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]
Found from Myanamar and Thailand at elevations of 800 to 1000 meters as a hot to warm growing terrestrial orchid with globose, erratically ribbed, grey-green pseudobulbs carrying thin, narrowly elliptic, deciduous leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring after leaf-fall on a basal, erect, dense, several to many flowered, 6 to 8 " [15 to 20 cm] long, racemose inflorescence
Synonyms Eria brandisii King & Pantl. 1897; Eria microphyton Schltr. 1906; Gunnarorchis perpusilla (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Brieger 1981; Pinalia perpusilla (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide;
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