Pinalia angustifolia J.J.Wood 2009SECTION Polyura Photo by © Tom Ballinger and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Narrow-Leaved Pinalia

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Sabah Borneo in hill riverine forests at elevations around 500 to 1800 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with cylindrical to narrowly fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped by distinctly nerved, brown sheaths and carrying 2 to 3, distal, linear to linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, thin textured leaves that blooms in the fall, winter and spring? on a short, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence arising from the sunken pits on the upper internode with ovate, acute, greenish yellow floral bracts.

This species, within my taxonomic scheme, would be better placed within Eria but it has not been described as such yet.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 4 2009 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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