Eulophia euantha Schltr. 1915 Photos by © JSTOR Plant Sciences Website

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Common Name The Beautiful Eulophia

Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]

Found in Chad, Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroon, Zaire, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe in dambos and open grasslands and the margins of riverine forests at elevations of 660 to 1300 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with subterranean, ellipsoid to cylindric, tuberous growths giving rise to 4 to 5, suberect, the basal 1 to 2 being bract-like, the upper ones lanceolate to oblanceolate, acuminate, plicate, long petiolate base leaves that are fully developed at blooming occuring in the late spring and early summer on an erect, rather densely many flowered inflorescence

This determiantion is incorrect. The real flowers has a much different shape and pink to rose flowers. I leaves it here only as I need to ID it as it is quite beautiful.

Synonyms Eulophia kirkii Rolfe 1897; Eulophia lambii Rolfe 1914; Eulophia variopicta Chiov. 1911; Graphorkis stachyodes (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo not; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998;

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