Eulophia monotropis Schltr. 1916
Plant In Situ Zimbabwe Photos by © A. Rensonnet [1 and 3] and M. Séleck [photo 2] Copper Flora WebSite
Common Name The ?Eulophia
Flower Size
Found in Zaire, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe in Brachystegia and escarpment woodlands at elevations of 900 to 1600 meters as a medium sized, slender, warm to cool growing terrestrial with pseudobulbous, conical, chain forming tubers giving rise to 7 to 8, erect, linear, acuminate,the basal 3 sheathing, absent at flowering leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, peduncle with a short median sheath, 12 to 17.2" [30 to 43 cm] long, laxly 3 to 10 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts carrying spreading becoming nodding flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo fide; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998;
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