Eulophia adenoglossa (Lindl.) Rchb.f 1878 No Photo

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Common Name The Swollen Tongued Eulophia

Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]

Found in Guinea, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Natal and Transvall South Africa in dambos and open plateau grasslands and the miombo woodlands at elevations of 700 to 1350 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with subterranean, ovoid to ellipsoid, tuberous growths giving rise to 2 to 3, erect, linear, acuminate, plicate leaves that are absent or just arising at flowering that blooms in the late spring on a basal laxly few to many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Cymbidium adenoglossum Lindl. 1862; Eulophia aristata Rendle 1895; Eulophia baumiana Kraenzl. 1903; Eulophia lanceolata Rolfe 1897; Eulophia nigricans Schltr. 1895; Lissochilus candidus Kraenzl. 1900

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998;

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