Eria paniculata Lindl.

Description:  Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, Bangladesh, the eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam in mixed evergreen forests at elevations of 660 to 2300 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with caespitose, pendent, woody stems enveloped by tubular sheaths and carrying many all along the stem, linear to linear-oblong, acuminate, fleshy, subsessile to shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter through spring on 2 to 4, terminal, fasciculate to paniculate, wooly pubescent, densely many flowered inflorescence with acrid smelling flowers

Photorights: Cedric Jancloes

• Size:  orchid height 20-60 cm.  Leaves thickly leathery, narrowly lanceolate, 10-20 cm long, 3-6 mm wide, apex acuminate, base slightly narrowed, veins obvious. Inflorescence 1-2, was born top of the stem, is emitted from the inside of the leaves, erect, densely white woolly, 10-15 cm long, base with 1-2 pieces of sterile bracts, densely many flowered; floral bracts ovate lanceolate or nearly triangular, abaxially gray woolly hair or only the lower, 5-6 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, apex acuminate, slightly curved, often spreading or reflexed, do not fall when fruit; peduncle and child room densely woolly gray, about 2-3 mm, flowers 0.3mm long, 9.5mm wide
• Collector/Witnesses:  Cedric Jancloes (#CJ05)
• Year Collected:  2009
• Growing Media:  wood/pot
• Flowering Period:  April to June.
• Color:  yellowish green; the back of the sepals are densely white woolly; The petals are short relief And the color purple
• Water:  1 – 2 time daily
• Light:  partial shade – full shade 
• Temperature:  12 - 30 °C