Bryobium pudicum (Ridl.) Y.P.Ng & P.J.Cribb, Orchid Rev. 113(1265): 272 (2005).
Bryobium pudicum (Ridl.) Y.P.Ng & P.J.Cribb; Photo Kieu Dinh Thap
Vietnamese name: Lan len
Chinise name: 藓兰 xian lan
Common Name: The Modest Eria
Latin Name: Bryobium pudicum (Ridl.) Y.P.Ng & P.J.Cribb
Family: Orchidaceae
Synonym Name: Eria hindei Summerh.; Eria monophylla Schltr.; Eria pudica Ridl.
Description: Rhizome 3-4 mm in diam. Pseudobulbs 0.5-1 cm apart on rhizome, ± fusiform, 3-4 cm × 5-7 mm, enclosed in 4 or 5 membranous sheaths when young, 2- or 3-noded, apex 1- or rarely 2-leaved. Leaf blade oblanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 10-15 × 1.4-2.4 cm, obtuse; petiole 3-3.5 cm. Inflorescence arising from near apex of pseudobulb, 3-4 cm, densely grayish white pubescent, more than 10-flowered; peduncle ca. 1.2 cm; floral bracts ovate, ca. 3 mm, abaxially sparsely grayish white pubescent, acute. Flowers greenish white, sepals and petals with red veins, abaxially sparsely grayish white pubescent, column white, foot reddish brown; pedicel and ovary 3-4 mm, densely grayish white pubescent. Dorsal sepal elliptic, ca. 3 × 1.5 mm, acute; lateral sepals obliquely ovate, ca. 3.5 × 2.2 mm, acute; mentum short. Petals ovate-lanceolate, ca. 3 × 1.5 mm, glabrous, acute; lip rhombic or broadly elliptic in outline, ca. 3 × 2.5-3 mm, obtuse, base and apex ± fleshy, shallowly 3-lobed or nearly unlobed, base with 1 reddish brown oblong callus ca. 1 mm, on either side with a rounded and a subobovate-rounded reddish brown callus, and near apex with a reddish brown anchor-shaped median appendage. Column ca. 1 mm, foot ca. 1.5 mm. Fl. Jun-Jul.
Distribution: Found in the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Malaysia and Borneo and Laos.
Ecological: Epiphyte in deciduous forest at 2 m high in a tree along a
large stream, 307 m a.s.l.
Reference:
- theplantlist.org
- efloras.org
- orchidspecies.com
- ipni.org
- Andre Schuiteman, Pierre Bonnet, Bouakhaykhone Svengsuksa and Daniel Barthelemy; An annotated checklist of the Orchidaceae of Laos; Nordic Journal of Botany 26: 257-316, 2008
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