Eria pannea Lindl.
Description: This species is a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte from the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, southern China, Vietnam, Borneo and Sumatra in broadleaf, evergreen, semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests, savanah-like woodlands and humid, mossy, mixed and coniferous forests on mossy branches of old, dwarf, gnarled trees, primary montane forests or highland primary montane cloud forests at elevations of sealevel to 1300 meters with a creeping rhizome, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with pubescent, fragrant flowers reminiscent of vanilla.
Photorights: Cedric Jancloes
- Size: rhizome slender, young parts covered with white hairy sheaths, erect shoots 3 – 5cm apart, not fleshy, the old leafless one 1.5cm long, leaves 2 – 3 on each shoot, 7 – 15cm long, slightly flattened laterally, 5mm wide, inflorescence bearing 1 – 3 flowers, scape about 2cm long, flowers 1.6 – 2cm wide.
- Collector/Witnesses: Cedric Jancloes
- Year Collected: 2010
- Growing Media: wood/pot
- Flowering Period: March - may
- Color: sepals and petal bright yellow with green shade while opening and turns to orange shade in a day or two. Lip is with shades of dark brown with a bright yellow marking on its apex.
- Water: 2 – 3 time daily
- Light: bright – full sunlight
- Temperature: 12 – 36 °C