Eulophia coeloglossa Schltr. 1903 SECTION Cyrtopera Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Hollow Tongued Eulophia

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Burundi, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cape Province and Natal South Africa in wet dambos and marshes at elevations of 1100 to 1300 meters as a medium to just large sized, cool growing terrestrial with a subteranean, fleshy, elongate rhizome giving rise to 4 to 5, in a fan, linear, ribbed, acute leaves that are often only partly develped at blooming, occuring in the late spring and early summer on an erect, laxly 3 to 13 flowered inflorescence with 3 short, acute bracts and lanceolate, acuminate or acute floal bracts and carrying subnutant flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo fide; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 1 1983 photo fide; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 drawing fide/photo fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998 drawing fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; Terrestrial African Orchids, A select Review John S. Ball 2009 drawing fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 5 Epidendrodeae Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2009

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