Eulophiella galbana (Ridl.) Bosser & Morat 2001

Photo by Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar

EARLY

Common Name The Greenish Yellow Eulophiella

Flower Size .72" [1.8 cm]

Found in southeast Madagascar humid evergreen forests at elevations of 1800 to 1900 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid with bright yellow, shiny, ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, narrowly linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute, plicate leaves that blooms in the early summer on a pale, 8" [20 cm] long, shorter than the leaves, 8 to 12 flowered inflorescence with 6 membraneous sheaths .

Synonyms *Eulophia galbana Ridl. 1885; Graphorkis galbana (Ridl.) Kuntze 1891; Lissochilus galbanus (Ridl.) H.Perrier 1941