Eulophia pratensis Lindl. 1858
Photo by © Jalal & Jayanth
Drawing by © P.F. Fyson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Prat? Eulophia
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in southwestern India in short grasslands in muddy clayey soils as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with 2 to 4, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acute leaves that appear before blooming in the late fall and winter on an erect, 6 to 18" [15 to 45 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with persistent, oblong-lanceolate, acute floral bracts.
CAUTION The drawing above does not make clear that the lip is trilobed apically.
Synonyms Eulophia ramentacea Wight 1851; Eulophia virens Stocks ex Lindl. 1858; Graphorkis pratensis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Bombay Santapu & Kapadia 1966 as E ramentacea drawing fide; Indian Orchids Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1979 as E ramentacea drawing hmm; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 #4 1984; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo fide; Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018;
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