Eulophia leonensis Rolfe 1897
Drawing by Francisco Perez-Vera
Collection sheet by Herbier National du Benin
Common Name The Sierra Leone Eulophia
Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]
Found in Senegal, Benin, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Guinea, Central African Republic and Uganda in gallery forests at elevations around 400 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing terresrial with a tuberous rhizome giving rise to 2 to 4, present at flowering, not completely developed, lanceolate to elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, 12 to 20" [30 to 50 cm] long, successively few, several flowered inflorescence with linear, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying brownish-green flowers more or leass spotted with purple.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide;
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