I was checking Orchidaceae section of Flora of Maharastra and trying to related pictures. Dr. Almeida describes the key as follows:
Margins of sepal entire; lip ovate- lanceolate ............................................. Eria conrardii Margins of sepals cilliate with minute gland-tipped hairs, lip pandurate ....... Eria microchilos Further going down to his own description of species, he writes E. conrardii having 2 leaves where as E. microchilos with 2-4 leaves. I am sure you can check the error..... At the same time, he also describes a variety E. conrardii var. fimbriata which differs as, "petals and to some extent lateral sepals are fringed with translucent gland tipped hairs". Interestingly, this contradicts with his own key....... to differentiate conrardii and microchilos. So even if I follow Dr. Ameida's flora then there are two different plants in the picture, 2 pictures have plants with 2 leaves and other two have it with 4 leaves and secondly, you can see the plant is in fruit so you cant see the glands if they were present. So NO COMMENTS on the id of the species from my side, other than that yes, these are some Eria spp.. Regards Pankaj
