Eria rhyncostyloides O'Brien 1907 Section Urostachya> Photo by © Eka Mulja

Another Color Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Flicker Orchid Photostream

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

Another Color FormPhoto by Peter Maxwell

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Common Name The Rhynchostylis-Like Eria

Flower Size .1" [2 mm]

Found only in Java at elevations of 500 to 800 meters in forests on volcanic slopes as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with fat squat, close set pseudobulbs carrying 4 to 5, apical, narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the fall on to 3, from below the leaves, erect then arching, 8" [20 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with simultaneously opening flowers arising from the apex of the pseudobulb.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo ok;

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