Eulophia calantha Schltr. 1903 SECTION Cyrtopera Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

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Common Name The Beautifully Blooming Eulophia

Flower Size 1.2 to 1.4" [3 to 3.5 cm]

Found in Guinea, Central African Republic, Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi and Zambia at elevations of 600 to 1350 meters in seasonally wet dambo grasslands as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with subterranean tubers giving rise to 1 to 2, erect, linear, ribbed grass-like leaves that are absent or just begining to arrive at blooming in the later spring on an erect, rather laxly 3 to 7 flowered inflorescence which is covered by 3 to 4 scattered scarious bracts and carries lanceolate, acuminate or aristate floral bracts

CAUTION I am unsure of this determination as the photo does not allow close inspection. Please use with caution!

Synonyms Eulophia calantha var. kubangensis Schltr. 1903; Eulophia monoceras (Kraenzl.) Butzin 1975; Lissochilus kapandensis De Wild. 1919; Lissochilus monoceras Kraenzl. 1914

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo hmm; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 drawing ok; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 photo ok; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998 drawing hmm; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 5 Epidendrodeae Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2009

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