Eria tridens Ames 1912 SECTION Urostachya Photo courtesy of David Banks, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name or Meaning The Profuse Eria

Flower Size .33" [8mm]

Found only in the Philippines at elevations up to 1000 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with short, oval pseuobulbs carrying 2, lanceolate, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms on to 3, arching white pubescent, many [35] flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Pinalia profusa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;

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