Eria biflora Griff.
Description: Found from Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand,Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Lesser Sunda Islands, Borneo, Java and Sumatra in primary montane forests at elevations of 300 to 1700 meters as a miniature, hot to cool growing epiphyte with swollen apically pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 5, elliptic lanceolate, subacute to acute, gradually tapering below into the short, grooved petiolate base leaves and blooms in the fall on an axillary, extremely short, compressed, 2 to 3 flowered, racemose inflorescence with elliptic recurved, yellow petaloid floral bracts .
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