Plant and flowers in situ South Africa Photos by © The Fernkloof WebSite

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Common Name The Coastal Eulophia

Flower Size

Found in southwestern and southern Cape Province South Africa in coastal sands at elevations of sealevel to 850 meters as a small to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with a subterranean tuberlike rhizome giving rise to vestigal or without leaves that blooms in the spring through early summer on an erect, 8.8 to 36" [22 to 90 cm] long, rather laxly 6 to 27 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder,Schelpe and Hall 1982 photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 24 1457 - 1520 Brieger 1991; The Cape Orchids Liltved & Johnson 2012 photos fide

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