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Bryobium eriaeoides
Bryobium eriaeoides, commonly known as the brittle urchin orchid, is an epiphytic or lithophytic clump-forming orchid that has fleshy, green pseudobulbs, each with two leaves and between three and twelve cup-shaped white to purplish flowers but that sometimes remain closed. This orchid occurs in New Guinea and Queensland.
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Description
Bryobium eriaeoides is an epiphytic or lithophytic herb that forms large clumps with cylindrical pseudobulbs 60–100 millimetres (2.4–3.9 in) long and 10–14 millimetres (0.39–0.55 in) wide covered with papery white bracts when young. Each pseudobulb has a thin elliptic to lance-shaped leaf 150–200 millimetres (5.9–7.9 in) long and 20–30 millimetres (0.79–1.2 in) wide. Between three and twelve cup-shaped, resupinate white to purplish flowers 4 millimetres (0.16 in) long and 3 millimetres (0.12 in) wide are arranged on a flowering stem 30–50 millimetres (1.2–2.0 in) long. The flowers are self-pollinating and open only slowly or not at all. The sepal and petals are about 3 millimetres (0.12 in) long and 2 millimetres (0.079 in) wide. The labellum is about 4 millimetres (0.16 in) long and wide with three lobes. The side lobes are erect and the middle lobe triangular with three ridges. Flowering occurs from August to October.
Range & habitat
Bryobium eriaeoides grows on trees and rocks in humid situations. It is found in New Guinea and Queensland from the Iron Range to near Townsville.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 140971.