Eulophia norlindhii Summerh. 1937

Plant In Situ Zimbabwe Photos by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite

Full Shade Warm Cool LATE Spring EARLY Summer

Common Name Norlind's Eulophia [South African Co-collector of Species 1900's]

Flower Size 3/4" 1.8 cm]

Found in Central African Republic, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe in miombo woodlands often on rocky hill slopes or on granite kopjes at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters as a miniature t omedium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with ovoid to elliptic, several noded subterranean tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying 2 to 7, vestigal, brownish, representeed by a few bract-like sheaths at flowersing leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect,

Synonyms Eulophia milnei var. norlindhii (Summerh.) Geerinck 1992

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998; African Terrestrial Orchids A Select Review J S Ball 2009 drawing fide

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