Species Information - Bryobium erioides

Bryobium erioides (F.M.Bailey) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones, Orchadian 13 (2002) 501 (eriaeoides)

Type: Bancroft s.n. 9-IV-1908 (ex Johnstone River, Queensland) (holo BRI; iso K)

Synonyms:

• Dendrobium erioides F.M.Bailey, Syn. Queensland Fl. Suppl. 2 (1888) 56 Bancroft s.n. 9-IV-1908 (ex Johnstone River, Queensland) (holo BRI; iso K)
• Callista erioides (F.M.Bailey) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. (1891) 654 (eriaeoides)
• Eria erioides (F.M.Bailey) Rolfe, Orchid Rev. 17 (1909) 95 (eriaeoides)
• Dendrobium eriae F.Muell., Sec. Syst. Census Austral. Pl. (1889) 186
• Eria parviflora F.M.Bailey, Bot. Bull. Dept. Agric. Queensland 14 (1896) 15 ?
  - Type: Brisbane cult. (MacGregor) s.n. (New Guinea) (holo BRI)
• Eria torricellensis Schltr. in K.Schum. & Lauterb., Nachtr. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. Südsee (1905) 183 ?
  - Type: Schlechter 14371 (holo B, lost)
• Eria clausa J.J.Sm., Bull. Dép. Agric. Indes Néerl. 39 (1910) 13 (non King & Pantl.)
  - Type: Römer, von 210; Bogor cult. (Exp. Lorentz (Djibdja 240)) s.n.
• Eria lorentziana J.J.Sm. & Kraenzl. in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV. 50. II. B. 21 (1911) 132
• Eria diphylla Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1912) 663
  - Type: Schlechter 16582 (holo B, lost; iso AMES, BO, E, G, K, L 2x, NSW 2x, S)

Epiphyte, erect, 30 cm high; rhizome decumbent; short; somewhat thickened, densely covered with clasping sheaths; roots thin, filiform, elongated, flexuose, rather inconspicuously papillose; pseudobulbs 1-2 cm distant, cylindrical, covered with large, clasping sheaths, apex bifoliate, 5-7 cm high, near the middle 0.7-1 cm diameter; leaves erect or suberect, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acute or subacute, at the base gradually narrowed into the 4-6 cm long petiole, including the petiole 13-24 cm long, blade in the middle 2-2.7 cm wide; Inflorescence arsing laterally near the apex of the pseudobulbs, erect or suberect, rather laxly 10-20-flowered, 4-7 cm long, the short peduncle and rachis stellate-finely tomentose; bracts erect-patent, elliptic, obtuse, as long as or somewhat shorter than the ovary. Flowers erect-patent, usually cleistogamous, closed. Sepals ovate-elliptic, obtuse, outside sparsely stellate-puberulous. Lateral sepals oblique, at the base dilated along the front margins, mentum obtuse, 0.18 cm long. Petals obliquely elliptic-ligulate, obtuse, glabrous, somewhat shorter than the sepals. Lip at the base broadly cuneate, 3-lobed in apical third, 0.3 cm long, between the apices of the lateral lobes 0.3 cm wide, with a median keel extending to the base of the mid-lobe, with two oblique, equally long but thicker lateral keels, lateral lobes divergent, semioblong. obtuse, mid-lobe somewhat longer, triangular-semioblong, obtuse. Column short, glabrous, column-foot short; lobes of the clinandrium very low. Anther reniform-cucullate, in front retuse, dorsally with a swelling, glabrous. Ovary sessile, cylindrical, minutely stellate-finely tomentose, 0.3 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1911-1914, as Eria diphylla Schltr.)

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