Eulophia gracilis Lindl. 1823
Photo by Fredric Melki
Photo by Guy Ramette-Vovan of Gabon and his Gabon Orchids Website
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Common Name The Delicate Eulophia - The Green Ground Orchid
Found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Liberia, Cameroon, and Zaire in riverine forests in deep shade and often found along roadside embankments at elevations of sealevel to 20 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with conical pseudobulbs carrying several narrowly-elliptic, acute leaves with long petioles from which a terminal, erect, laxly many [20] flowered inflorescence occuring in the late winter.
The leaves of this species are boiled to make a syrup that is taken for intestinal conditions and worms
Synonyms Eulophia ciliata (Schumach.) Rchb.f 1863; Eulophia laurentiana Kraenzl. 1899; Eulophia preussii Kraenzl. 1893; Eulophia virens A.Chev. 1920; Galeandra extinctoria Lindl. 1833; Galeandra gracilis (Lindl.) Lindl. 1833; Graphorkis ciliata (Schumach.) Kuntze 1891; Graphorkis gracilis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Limodorum ciliatum Schumach. 1827
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 4 1959 as E virens; West African Lilies and Orchids Morton 1961 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 6 1978; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 #4 1984 as E virens; Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995; African Orchids in the Wild and in Cultivation La Croix 1997; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 8 2017 drawing fide;
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