Eulophia promensis Lindl.1833 SECTION Eulophia
Plant and Flowers in situ Thailand
Photos by © James Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by © Seidenfaden
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Common Name or Meaning The Prome Hills Eulophia [Myanmar region]
Flower Size .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm]
Found in Bangladesh, the eastern Himalayas, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand at elevations around 300 to 500 meters as a medium to large sized, hot growing terrestrial with tuberous, cylindric-globose pseudobulbs carrying 2, present during flowering, large, narrowly elliptic, acute, plicate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erect, racemose, 22.6" [54 cm] long, laxly 6 to 8 flowered inflorescence with bracts and linear-lanceolate, acute floral bracts.
Synonyms Ania promensis (Lindl.) Senghas 1984; Ascotainia promensis (Lindl.) Schltr.1919; Eulophia geniculata King & Pantl. 1895; Eulophia massiei Guillaumin 1930; Tainia promensis (Lindl.) Hook.f. 1889
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895 as Ania promensis; Indian The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as E geniculata drawing ok; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1961 as E sp #12 pg 497 fig 369 drawing fide; Botanisk Tidsserift 67: 76-127 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand IV Seidenfaden 1972 as E geniculata drawing fide hmm to photo; Orchids Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1979 photo hmm; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 as E geniculata; Opera Botanica #72 Orchid Genera in Thailand XI Cymbidiaeae Seidenfaden 1983 as E geniculata drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 #4 1984 as E geniculata; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 as Ania promensis; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 as E geniculata photo fide; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 as E geniculata photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing good
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