Eria vittata Lindl. 1859 SECTION Trichosma Photo by © John Varigos and His Orchid webpage

Common Name The Striped Eria - In China Tiao Wen Mao Lan

Flower Size .65" [1.7 cm]

Found in Assam, Eastern Himalayas, Myanmar and Thailand in woodlands with light shade at elevations of 1660 to 2800 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with distant to clustered, ovoid-conical to cylindric pseudobulbs partially enveloped with unequal brown sheaths and carrying 2, elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, tapering below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a racemose, terminal, decurved, 2.8 to 4" [7 to 10 cm] long, densely many flowered, glabrous inflorecence with minute, triangular, persistent floral bracts and carrying strongly fragrant glabrous flowers

Synonyms Pinalia vittata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing good

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