Eulophia milnei Rchb.f. 1881 Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

Partial shade Warm ColdSpring EARLY Summer

Common Name Milne's Eulophia [original collector of species 1800's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Ethiopia, Sudan, Benin, Senegal, Siera Leone, Ivory Coast, Togo, Ghana, Liberia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Zaire, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbawe, Swaziland, Natal and Transvaal South Africa in swampy grasslands, dambos and woodlands at elevations of 800 to 2300 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with subterranean, ovoid, chain-forming tubers giving rise to 2 to6, narrowly linear, acuminate, grass-like leaves that are absent or just beginning to appear at blooming in the spring and early summer on a laxly to fairly densely several to many flowered inflorescence almost completely enveloped by 4 to 5, papery bracts and has scarious, linear, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms Eulophia bulbinoides Schltr. 1924; Eulophia corallorhiziformis Schltr. 1895; Eulophia dictyostegoides Kraenzl. 1900; Eulophia gracillima Ridl. 1886; Eulophia lujaeana Kraenzl. 1899; Eulophia lutea Lindl. 1862; Eulophia microdactyla Kraenzl. 1914; Eulophia poiformis Szlach. 1993; Eulophia pusilla Rolfe 1914; Eulophia thollonii Szlach. & Olszewski 2001; Eulophia warneckeana Kraenzl. 1902; Graphorkis lutea Kuntze 1891; Graphorkis milnei (Rchb.f.) Kuntze1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing ok; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as E warneckeana drawing/photo hmm; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as E corallorhiziformis drawing hmm;Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; 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; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 photos fide

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