Eulophia hirschbergii Summerh. 1958 Drawing by © É. & M. Laurent

Common Name Hirschberg's Eulophia

Flower Size

Found in Zaire and Zambia in wet dambos and pans often with standing water at elevations of 1300 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with subterranean tubers giving rise to absent at flowering, lower ones reduced to sheaths, the upper ones, fleshy, channeled, almost terete leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erect, laxly 5 to 12 flowered inflorescence with 2 to 3 sheaths and with shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying yellow flowers with red brown on the inside of the sepals and the apex of the lip is red brown or purple.

Similat to E schweinfurthii but E hirschbergii has much narrower leaves and a more slender spur, toothed or pappilose crests on the lip and a shorter column foot. It also is similar to E clitellifera but E hischbergii has narrower leaves, an different lip, and a longer more slender spur as well as flowering later with the rains and in a differnt habitat.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998

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