Eulophia euantha Schltr. 1915 SECTION Orthochilus Photo by © Eric La Croix

Showing more normal nodding flowers Photo by © M Seleck and The Copper Flora Website TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Epiphytic Eulophia

Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm] long

Found in Congo, Zaire, Burundi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi and Angola in grasslands near woodlands at elevations of 850 to 1650 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with subterranean, tuberous organs giving rise to 1 to 3, linear, acumionate, ribbed, grass-like, absent or partly developed at flowering time leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, 3 short sheathed on the peduncle, densely 4 to 12 flowered inflorescence with spreading, lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts

Synonyms Eulophia abyssinica var. euantha (Schltr.) Geerinck 1992; Eulophia speciosa Rolfe 1897; Eulophia speciosissima Butzin 1975; Orthochilus euanthus (Schltr.) Bytebier 2014

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo fide; Flora of Tropical East Africa Vol 3 Cribb 1989 drawing good/photo good; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998 photo fide; African Terrestrial Orchids A Select Review J S Ball 2009 drawing fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 5 Epidendrodeae Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2009

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