Eulophia euglossa (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. ex Bateman 1866

Side View Of Flower Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Bill Hunter © and his Species Specific Website

Pl;ant and Flowers in situ Cameroon Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website

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Common Name The Euglossa Eulophia [refers to the tongue-like lip]

Flower Size 2 1/2" 6.25 cm]

Found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Siera Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Zaire, Ethiopia and Uganda in dense forests on sandy soils near rivers at elevations of 1200 to 1300 meters as a large sized, cool to warm growing terrestrial with narrowly conical pseudobulbs carrying 5 to 10, ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, petiolate leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, laxly many flowered, erect inflorescence carrying pendent flwoers

Synonyms *Galeandra euglossa Rchb.f. 1852

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984; African Orchids in the Wild and in Cultivation La Croix 1997; Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004

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