!Eulophia guineensis Lindl. 1823 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Side View of Flower Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website
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Common Name The Guinea Eulophia
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in the Cape Verde Islands, Benin, Burkino Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Siera Leone, Togo, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Rwanda, Zaire, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Oman, Saudia Arabia and Yemen in scrub and woodland, on poor rocky soil at elevations of 600 to 2000 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with clustered, ovoid-conical, 2 to 3 noded pseudobulb carrying 2 to 4 , elliptic to broadly lanceolate, depressed veins, acute leaves that blooms on a erect, to almost 2' [60 cm] long, loosely several to many [5 to 15], flowered inflorescence with waxy, fragrant flowers occuring in the fall and early winter. This species can be found with or without deciduous leaves.
Synonyms Eulophia congoensis Cogn. 1895; Eulophia guineensis var. kibilana Schltr. 1915; Eulophia guineensis var purpurata Kotschy 1865; Eulophia guineensis var. tisserantii Szlach. & Olszewski 2001; Eulophia quartiniana A. Rich. 1850; Galeandra quartiniana (A.Rich.) Rchb.f. 1852; Graphorchis guineensis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Saccolabium abyssinicum A.Rich. 1851
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 5 1957; AOS Buletin Vol 38 No 1 1969 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970 as E quartiana; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as E quartiniana drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 1 1983 photo; Orchids of the Central African Republic - A Provisional Checklist Cribb & Fay 1987; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 1 1991 as Eulophia quartiniana photo; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1996 photo fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998; Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004 photo ok; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 4 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 1 2008 photo; Terrestrial African Orchids, A select Review John S. Ball 2009 drawing fide
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