Eria pulchella Lindl. 1828 SECTION Tylostylis
Plant Photo courtesy of Nik Fahmi and his Vortex Orchid Page
Plant en situ in Sarawak, Borneo Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
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Common Name The Beautiful Eria
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Java in old mangroves, and a variety of other moist forest types at elevations of sea level to 1000 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or terrestrial in humus, with a long, creeping rhizome with flattend oval pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4 apical, oblong, shallowly and obtusely bilobed apically leaves and blooms on 1 to 3, terminal, white pubescent, erect, to 4" [10 cm] long, several, quickly, successively single flowered [to 20] inflorescence with the fleshy flowers held towards the apical end.
Synonyms Callostylis pulchella [Lindl.] S.C.Chen & Tsi 1984; Pinalia rigida (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891. Tylostylis pulchella [Lindl.] Ridl. 1915; Tyolstylis rigida sensu Ridley 1907
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids in Burma Grant 1895/1995; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo ok; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing hmm; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Callostylis pulchella drawing/photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide
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