Eriodes barbata

Eriodes barbata Rolfe, Orchid Rev. 1915, xxiii. 326.

Eriodes barbata Rolfe, Photo by David P Banks

its native range is Bhutan to China (S. Yunnan) and N. Indo-China.

Latinh Name: 

Eriodes barbata Rolfe

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Coelogyne nigrofurfuracea Guillaumin

Eria barbata (Lindl.) Rchb.f.

Neotainiopsis barbata (Lindl.) Bennet & Raizada

Pinalia barbata (Lindl.) Kuntze

Tainia barbata Lindl.

Tainiopsis barbata (Lindl.) Schltr.

English Name:

The Bearded Eriodes (refers to the hairy pedicel).

Chinese name:

Mao Geng Lan - 毛梗兰 .

Description: 

With sulcate, globose pseudobulbs enveloped basally by fibrous sheaths and carrying 1 to 3, plicate, 3 to 5 nerved, lanceolate, acute to acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a basal, erect, laxly 9 flowered, narrowing from broad base, pubescent, slender, weakly fractiflex, to 80 cm long, racemose inflorescence with pubescent, lanceolate, acute floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers.

Distribution:

Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam.

Ecological:

In open forests or in forests margins on tree trunks at elevations around 1200 to 1700 m as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the fall and winter.

Flower size:

3.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Type:

Griffith, W. [s.n.], Meghalaya  K000960016 Unknown type material

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- orchidspecies.com

- ipni.org

- powo.science.kew.org