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[[File:Eria_spicata.jpg|thumb|''Eria spicata'']]


'''Common Name:''' The Spicate Eria<br />
'''Scented:''' yes<br />
'''Light Requirements:''' partial sun<br />
'''Temperature Requirements:''' cool to hot<br />
'''Blooms:''' spring and summer<br />
'''Flower Size:''' 8mm<br />
'''Synonyms:''' ''Eria convallaroides'' Lindley 1830; ''Eria salwinensis'' Hand.-Mazz. 1936; ''Octomeria convallarioides'' D. Don 1830; *''Octomeria spicata'' D. Don 1825; ''Pinalia alba'' Buch.-Ham. 1825
Found in China, western Himalayas, Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam at elevations of 800m to 2800m as a miniature to small-sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with crowded, terete, narrow, elliptic-oblong to conical pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 1 to 2 sheaths and carrying 4, arising from near the apex, elliptic-oblong,obliquely bifid, sessile to shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a glabrous, lateral, sub-erect, slender, 12cm to 18cm long, laxly 5 to 20 flowered inflorescence with ovate-elliptic to oblong, obtuse, reflexed, floral bracts carrying glabrous to sparsely pilose, subglobose, fragrant flowers.
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