Eria saccifera Hook.f. 1890 SECTION Hymenaria Photo by © Kharamid and Orchids Online Website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The Sack Carrying Eria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Borneo, Malysia and Sumatra in riverine, hill, lower and ridge, montane forests at elevations of 200 to 2400 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with close set, cylindrical, elongate pseudobulbs enveloped almost completely by, dark reddish brown, brown speckled, triangular-ovate, acute sheaths and carrying 2 to 6 apical, coriaceous, , 6 to 8 nerved, medium green above, dull grey-green below, oblong-elliptic, acute to acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the cuneate, conduplicate, petiolate base leaves that blooms fall and winter on a sessile, arching, many flowered, to 5" [to 12 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising from just below the leaves and with ovate, acute floral bracts.

Synonyms Eria brookesii Ridl. 1908; Eria saccata Ridl. 1912; Eria suaveolens Ridl.1896; Pinalia saccifera (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Pinalia suaveolens (Ridl.) Y.P.Ng & P.J.Cribb 2005 Urostachya saccata (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1891 drawing ok; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Woods and Seidenfaden 1992 drawing hmm; The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 as E suaveolens drawing ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Borneo Vol. 4 Woods 2003 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo ok; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Pinalia saccifera; 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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