Eria xanthocheila Ridl. 1907 SECTION Hymeneria Photo by © Ong Poh Teck and Biological Diversity Clearing House Mechanism Website

Inflorescence Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

Another Flower color Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Jim Cootes, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Another Color Form? Photo courtesy of Roman Maruska and His Digital Orchid Page

Common Name or Meaning The Yellow Lip Eria

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Southern Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and the northern Phillipines in lowland, hill and lower montane forests near lakes and rivers from 300 to 1600 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with a clavate pseudobulb carrying several, 2" to 3.6" [5 to 9 cm] inflorescence with up to 25 short-lived, fragrant flowers occuring mostly in the summer. This species does best mounted and needs less water during the blooming season. This species and E lamonganensis are similar but differ in this speies having 1" [2.5 cm betweeen each stem, no irregular calli on the midlobe of the lip which is only yellow and has long, lanceolate flower bracts and long, oblong, truncated on top side lobes of the lip.

Synonyms Eria wichersii Schltr. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo fide; 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 photo fide; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 67 No 3 2002 photo; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Pinalia xanthocheila photo ok; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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