Eria stricta Lindl. 1821 SECTION Hymenaria Lindley Photo by © Gary Yonggee and his Orchid Website

Another Inflorescence Photo by © A & K Petrzelka

Plant and Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden.

Part shade HotWarmFall MIDSpring

Common Name The Rigid Eria - In China E Bai Ping Lan

Flower Size .1" [2 to 4 mm]

Found in Nepal, upper India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar, Thailand and Southern China in subtropical valleys at elevations of 300 to 1900 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with crowded, cylindric pseudobulbs enveloped basally by fibrous sheaths and carrying 2, apical, oblong-elliptic, acute, grooved and shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall through mid spring on an erect, apically axillary, racemose, usually secund, densely many flowered, glabrous, 3 to 8" [7.5 to 20 cm] long inflorescence with ovate, acute, glabrous floral bracts.

Synonyms Mycaranthes stricta (Lindl.) Lindl. 1830

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997 as Eria striata; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo ok; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Pinalia stricta; Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 as Pinalia stricta drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 as Pinalia stricta photos ok;

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