Eria punctata J.J.Sm. 1907 SECTION Urostachya

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Spotted Eria

Flower Size .3" [7.5 mm]

Found in penninsular Malaysia, Java, Sumatra and Sabah Borneo in hill riverine forests at elevations around 500 to 1800 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with about .4" [1 cm] between each ovate-oblong, flattened pseudobulbs enveloped by persistent, lanceoalte, acute sheaths and and carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, terete, pale green, shortly hairy, to 4.4" [11 cm] long, to 8 to 11 flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate basally, obtuse, glabrous, pale green floral bracts and carrying flowers that do not open widely

Synonyms Pinalia punctata [J.J.SM.] J.J.Wood 2001;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra JB Comber 2001; 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 Pinalia punctata photo fide

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