Eulophia andamanensis Rchb.f. 1872
Plant with Flowers Photos courtesy of © Peter O'Byrne,Dr. E.F. de Vogel, Jaap Vermeulen, and André Schuiteman and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name or Meaning The Andaman Eulophia
Flower Size more than 1" [more than 2.5 cm]
A medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial in grass or wastelands found in the Andaman Islands, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Sumatra and Malaysia with cylindrical-conical, six noded pseudobulbws carrying 6, grass-like, acute, keeled leaves with the lower ones smaller than the upper that blooms in the fall on an erect, to 15" [to 19.5 cm] long, many [10 to 15] flowered racemose inflorescence with triangular, acute floral bracts carrying long-lasting flowers occuring in the spring and fall with leafless pseudobulbs. The name E andamanensis most likely is the correct name for this species as it takes precedence as it was described 24 years previous.
Synonyms Cyrtopera andamanensis (Rchb.f.) Rolfe 1895; Eulophia keithii Ridley 1896; Eulophia poilanei Gagnep. 1931; Graphorchis andamanensis (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Cyrtopera andamensis; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1957; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Wood & Seidenfaden 1992; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids Of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;
