Eulophia ramosa Ridl. 1885

Photo by © Guy Eric Onjalalaina and The I Naturalist Website

Common Name The Branching Eulophia [refers to the inflorescence]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Madagascar in western dry forests at elevations up to 1000 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial or lithophyte with narrowly cylindrical to stem-like pseudobulbs carrying grass-like, developing at flowering leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, branching, 20 to 32" [50 to 80 cm] long, very laxly several flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Eulophia ramentacea Wight 1851; Eulophia virens Stocks ex Lindl. 1858; Graphorkis pratensis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1941 as Lissochilus ramosus drawing good; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Cribb, Du Puy and Bosser 2007; A Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Hermans and Cribb 2009; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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