Eria robusta (Blume) Lindl. 1830 SECTION Aeridostachya Hkr.f Photo courtesy of Jek Yap

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt.

Inflorescence Photo by Prof Dr Kamarudin Mat-Salleh and his Flickr Photo Website.

EARLY LATE

Common Name The Robust Eria - In China Qi Sui Lan

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi, Sumatra, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, the Philippines, Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and Taiwan in lowland and montane primary forests at elevations around 300 to 2150 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with pseudobulbs enveloped completely by 4 to 7 sheaths and carrying 2 apical, linear-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early spring on 1 to 2, arching, 12" [30 cm] long, densely many flowered inflroescence inflorescence.

Synonyms Aeridostachya purpureocentrum (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983; Aeridostachya robusta (Blume) Brieger 1981; *Dendrolirium robustum Blume 1825; Eria aeridostachya Rchb.f. ex Lindl. 1859; Eria brunea Ridl. 1896; Eria falcata J.J.Sm. 1905; Eria ferruginea Teijsm. & Binn. 1862; Eria linearifolia Ridl. 1924; Eria lorifolia Ridl. 1896; Eria purpureocentrum J.J.Sm. 1922; Eria sawadae Yamam. 1931; Eria uchiyamae Tuyama 1940; Eria whitfordii Leav. 1909; Pinalia aeridostachya (Rchb.f. ex Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pinalia robusta (Blume) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as E falcata; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 as E falcata drawing fide; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing good; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as E whitfordii; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing ok; Lowland Orchids Of Papua New Guinea O'Byrne 1994; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe' Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile 1995 as Eria aeridostachya photo ?; The Orchids of Samoa Cribb & Whistler 1996; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Aeridostachya robusta; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 as Aeridostachya robusta drawing ok; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Aeridostachya robusta drawing/photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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