Bundled Eria is a a miniature to small sized orchid
dwelling on trees, with ellipsoid to flask-like, grooved, flattened
when closely clustered pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 5,
inverted-lanceshaped-flaccid, blunt to pointed, pale green, many nerved
leaves. Inflorescences are 1-3, 3-6 cm long, 4-7-flowered; axis
hairless; floral bracts ovate or ovate-lanceshaped, 0.5-1 cm, margin
sparsely finely toothed, tip long tapering. Flowers are white, sepals
tinged green at tip, lip yellow; flower-stalk and ovary about 1 cm.
Dorsal sepal narrowly ovate, about 6 x 2 mm, 5-veined, tapering;
lateral sepals sickle shaped-lanceshaped, about 7 x 5-6 mm, tapering.
Petals are lanceshaped, about 6 x 2 mm, blunt; lip broadly wedge-shaped
in outline, about 7 x 6 mm, base attached to column foot at a right
angle, 3-lobed; lateral lobes sickle shaped-oblong, about 2 mm wide;
mid-lobe round, about 3 x 3 mm; disk with 3 keeled lamellae from base
to middle of mid-lobe. Column is about 3 mm; foot about 4 mm. Capsules
are narrowly cylindric, about 2.7 x 0.4 cm. Bundled Eria is found in
Eastern Himalaya, from Nepal to NE India, China and Indo-China, at
altitudes of 600-1500 m. Flowering: June-August.
Identification credit: Pankaj Kumar
Photographed in Manipur.
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