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Eulophia alta (L.) Fawc. & Rendle 1910

Inflorescence Photos by of Jay Pfahl

Common Name The Erect Eulophia - The Wild Coco Orchid

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

A large sized, pantropical, hot to warm growing terrestrial found in Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Siera Leone, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Zaire, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Florida, Georgia USA, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, on roadside banks and marshy areas at elevations of sealevel to 1500 meters with tuberous stems concealed by basally clasping, leaf-bearing sheaths with linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 9 veined, plicate, stiff, basally conduplicate leaves with the mid-vein thickened and arising with the blooms occuring in the fall in the southern hemisphere on a basal, stiffly erect, racemose, 6' [2 m] long inflorescence with linear floral bracts that carry many [30+], resupinate flowers .

This one along roadside in Bertioga, Sao Paulo State Brazil at elevation 10 meters and was blooming there in the fall. Quite a site by the side of the road in a wet drainage swale

Synonyms Bletia alta (L.) Hitchc. 1893; Cypripedium epidendricum Vell. 1831; Cyrtopera alta (L.) Stehlé 1939; Cyrtopera amazonica Barb.Rodr. 1881; Cyrtopera longifolia (Kunth) Rchb. f. 1863; Cyrtopera vellosiana Barb.Rodr. 1881; Cyrtopera woodfordii (Sims) Lindl. 1833; Cyrtopodium woodfordii Sims 1816; Dendrobium longifolium Kunth 1816; Dendrobium mexicanum C. Presl 1827; Eulophia alta f. flavescens (Schltr.) F.Barros 2004; Eulophia alta f. pallida P.M.Br. 1995; Eulophia alta f. pelchatii P.M.Br. 1998; Eulophia alta var. alba L.C.Menezes 1998; Eulophia longifolia (Kunth) Schltr. 1816; Eulophia longifolia var. Cogn. 1902; Eulophia longifolia var. flavescens Schltr. 1922; Eulophia longifolia var. pachystelida Rchb.f 1852; Eulophia woodfordii (Sims) Rolfe 1897; Govenia barbata Poepp. & Endl. 1837-8; *Limodorum altum L. 1767; Lissochilus amazonicus Barb.Rodr. 1877; Maxillaria longifolia Lindley 1832; Paphiopedilum epidendricum (Vell.) Pfitzer 1894; Platypus altus (L.) Small 1767; Platypus papilliferus Small 1903; Xylobium longifolium [Kunth] Lindl. ex Spreng. 1828;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Cyrtopera woodfordii; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Cyrtopera longifolia; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing as E longifolia drawing fide; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 51. Panama Schlechter 1922 E longifolia; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:140 Schlechter 1924 as E longifolia; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as Eulophia longifolia; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 8 1959 photo; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 105 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 6 1981 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 1 1984 photo AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1222 Dodson 1985 drawing fide; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 3 1987 photo; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0233 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Fairchild Tropical Garden Bulletin Vol 47 No 2 1992 photo; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum plate 056 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 3 1996 photo; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 2 2000 photo; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 7 2004 photo; Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 5 2006 photo; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 no 1 2008 photo; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide

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