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.
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