Eria pseudoleiophylla J.J.Wood 1981 SECTION Strongyleria
Plant and flowers Photos by © J.B. Comber [1st photo] and Peter O'Byrne [the others] and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Common Name The False Leiophylla Calanthe
Flower Size .75" [1.8 cm]
Found in Borneo, Suluwesi and New Guinea in hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 800 to 1700 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 3" [7.5 cm] between each cylindric, elongate pseudobulb enveloped completely by scarious sheaths and carrying 3, apical, linear-elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing bnelow into the petiollate base leaves that blooms on a short, single flowered inflorescence arising from thae apex of the stem opposite or in between the leaves pseudobulbs enveloped completely by leaf bearing, sheaths and carrying plicate, elliptic, crenulate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, 7.2" [18 cm] long, successively several to many flowered inflorescence with a few well spaced bracts
Synonyms Campanulorchis pseudoleiophylla [Wood] Wood 2011
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Campanulorchis pseudoleiophylla drawing/photo fide;
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