Eulophia barteri Summerh. 1936 Photo by © Fredric Melki

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Common Name Barter's Eulophia [English Plant Collector in Africa around 1850]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and the Central African Republic in savannahs and semi deciduous forests at low elevations as a large sized, hot growing terrestrial with a thick tuber-like, subterrranean rhizome giving rise to an erect, leaf stem carrying a few, close set, basal, plicate, acute, lanceolate leaves that blooms in the later spring and summer on an erect, provided with widely ovate, suacute, narrowing basally bracts, 24 to 36" [60 to 90 cm] long, successively 3 to 6, 15 or so flowered inflorescence carrying long lasting flowers .

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963; West African Lilies and Orchids Morton 1961; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide;

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