Paralophia palmicola (H.Perrier) P.J.Cribb 2005

TYPE Drawing by © Perrier and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Palm Loving Eulophia

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm] long

Found in south eastern Madagascar on palm tree trunks at elevations of sea level to 600 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an elongate, creeping rhizome giving rise to fusiform, pseudobulbous stems carrying 3 to 4, plicate. linear, rigid leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, longer than the leaves, peduncle rigid, 12 to to 16" [30 to 40 cm] long, partiaqlly enveloped by numerous, apressed, scarious, obtuse sheaths,16 to 24" [40 to 60 cm] long overall, rachis simple to several basally branched, loosely 15 to 20 flowered inflorescence with cauducous, narrowly lanceolate, whitish floral bracts and carrying large, yellowish with purple spotted flowers.

Synonyms *Eulophia palmicola H.Perrier 1935; Lissochilus palmicola (H.Perrier) H.Perrier 1941

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as Lissochilus palmicolus drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar DuPuy, Hermans, Cribb & Bosser 2007; A Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; Paralophia palmicola

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