Bryobium pudicum (Ridl.) Y.P.Ng & P.J.Cribb 2005 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Photo Website

Inflorescence Photo by © Art Vogel

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Common Name The Modest Bryobium - In China Xian Lan

Flower Size 1/4" [6mm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Malaysia and Borneo in mangroves and near rivers on or near to the ground at elevations of 400 to 800 as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or terretsrial with a noded, cylindrical, apically narrowing pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, widest in the upper part, narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a basal, erect, 1.6" [4 cm] long, to 10 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Eria hindei Summerh.1932; Eria pudica Ridl. 1896

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shim & Wood 1994; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 as Eria pudica photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Cribb & Pearce 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as Eria pudica; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Bryobium pudicum; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 as Bryobium pudicum photos hmm; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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