Eulophia zeyheriana Sond.1846
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Common Name Zeyher's Eulophia [German Botanist and Plant Collector in South Africa 1800's]
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Found in Cape Province, Swaziland, Natal and Transvaal South Africa in high altitude sour grasslands at elevations of 1000 to 2200 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with grass-like, linear leaves that are half developed at blooming occuring in the late spring and early summer on an erect, laxly 4 to 17 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Eulophia brachystyla Schltr.1899; Graphorkis zeyheriana (Sond.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing not = E mechowii; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler & Burns 2008 photos fide; Orchid Digest Vol 77 #3 2013 photo fide; ; Orchid Digest Vol 81 #1 2017 photo fide;
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