Eulophia latilabris Summerh. 1936 Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

LATER EARLY

Common Name The Broad Lipped Eulophia

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Zaire, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbawe and Botswana in swampy grasslands, in tall grasses at swamp and dambo margins, and beside rivers in swampy areas at elevations of 1000 to1600 meters as a large to giant sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with subterranean, obliquely conical tuberous growths giving rise to 2 to 5, lanceolate, acuminate, petiolate base leaves that are not fully developed at blooming in the later spring and early summer onm an erect, to 48" [120 cm] long, stout, densely several to many flowered inflorescence with 4 to 5, loose bracts and has elliptic, acute, in opposute pairs each enclosing 1 to 2 flowers and carrys sub-nutant flowerws

SynonymsEulophia busseana (Kraenzl.) Butzin 1975; Eulophia gilletiana Butzin 1975; Eulophia lomamiensis Butzin 1975; Eulophia longilobata Butzin 1975; Eulophia pentalamellata Butzin 1975; Lissochilus busseanus Kraenzl. 1902; Lissochilus leopoldii Kraenzl. 1899; Lissochilus nyassae Rolfe 1897; Lissochilus schweinfurthii Rchb.f. 1878; Lissochilus subintegris De Wild1919; Lissochilus thomsonii Rolfe 1897

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as Lissochilus Schweinfurthii; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo ok; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 drawing ok; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 photo ok; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998 drawing ok;

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------