Eulophia carsonii Rolfe 1897 SECTION Orthochilus Photo by © Piqueray J. and The CopperFlora Website

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Common Name Carson's Eulophia

Flower Size

Found in Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia in woodlands, grasslands and margins of watershed dambos at elevations of 1000 to 1650 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with subterranean, short chain-like, irregularily ellipsoid, tuberous organs giving rise to 1 to 3, erect, linear, acuminate, plicate, grasslike, partly developed at anthesis leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, 8 to 12" 2 scarious sheathed, 2 to 190 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts and carrying rather bell shaped flowers.

Synonyms Eulophia welwitschii subsp. carsonii (Rolfe) Geerinck 2005; Orthochilus carsonii (Rolfe) Bytebier 2014

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing ok; Flora of Tropical East Africa Vol 3 Cribb 1989; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998;

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