Eria polyura Lindl. 1841 SECTION Polyura Photo courtesy of Purification Orchids and Their Philippine Orchid Website

Another Inflorescence Photo courtesy of David Banks, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name or Meaning The Many Tailed Eria [refers to the ]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found only in the Philippines at elevations of 60 to 2400 meters as a medium sized, sprawling, hot to cool growing epiphyte or semi-terrestrial with somewhat club-shaped pseudobulbs carrying to 5, lanceolate, shiney leaves that blooms on a pendulous, to 4" [10 cm] long, many [40] flowered inflorescence arising from the upper portion of the plant

Synonyms Pinalia polyura (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;

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