Eulophia malangana (Rchb.f.) Summerh.1956 Specimen by © H Baum and JSTOR Plant Sciences Website

Common Name The Malanga Eulophia [An area in northern Angola]

Flower Size

Found in Zaire, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi and Zambia, in seasonally wet or waterlogged grasslands, in dambos and damp peaty soils on lake margins at elevations of 1300 to 1680 meters as a large to giant sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a subterranean, elongating rhizome giving rise to 2 to 6, erect, linear, acuminate, lowest sheathing leaves that are absent or just begining to develop at blooming which is in the spring on an erect, laxly to densely several to many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate acute floral bracts

Synonyms Eulophia rigidifolia Kraenzl. 1914; Eulophia warburgii Schltr. 1903; *Lissochilus malanganus Rchb.f. 1882

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide; Flora of Troopical East Africa Part 3 Cribb 1989; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998

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