Eulophia rosea (Lindl.) A.D.Hawkes 1964

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Another Color Form - E horsfallii Photo by © Leon van Eck and His Orchid Blogspot.

Common Name The Rose Colored Eulophia

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Benin, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, The Guinea Gulf Islands, Rwada, Zaire, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Natal and Transvaal South Africa by streams, rivers, dams, swamps, marshes and in open grasslands and forests in deep shade at elevations of sealevel to 2500 meters as a large to giant sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with a fleshy underground rhizome giving rise to 3 to 5, erect, lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute, narrowing below into an elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on an erect, terminal, stout, laxly 5 to 50 flowered inflorescence with large, fleshy, fragrant flowers

Almost all references give this epiteth as Eulophia horsfallii, I am still trying to sort out if Eulophia rosea is a valid separate species. The orchid in the photo is consistent with what is called Eulophia horsfallii and most likely is that species if there is a different species named E rosea. If this species and E horfallii are the same species then E rosea woud be correct as Lissochilus roseus predates E horsfallii by many years.

Synonyms Eulophia alexandri (Rchb.f.) Butzin 1975; Eulophia dybowskii (God.-Leb.) Butzin 1975; Eulophia eleogena (Schltr.) Butzin 1975; Eulophia horsfallii [Batem.] Summerh. 1936; Eulophia huillensis Butzin 1975; Eulophia keiliana (Kraenzl.) Butzin 1973; Eulophia magnicristata Szlach. & Olszewski 2001; Eulophia mahonii (Rolfe) A.D.Hawkes 1964; Eulophia multicolor (Kraenzl.) Butzin 1975; Eulophia porphyroglossa [Rchb.f] Bolus 1889; Eulophia sandersonii [Rchb.f] Hawkes 1964; Eulophia sceptrum (Schltr.) Butzin 1975; Eulophia scottii Butzin 1975; Lissochilus alexandri Rchb.f. 1882; Lissochilus dybowskii God.-Leb. 1892; Lissochilus eleogenus Schltr. 1915; Lissochilus elliotii Rendle 1895; Lissochilus horsfallii Bateman 1865; Lissochilus keilianus Kraenzl. 1909; Lissochilus mahonii Rolfe 1905; Lissochilus multicolor Kraenzl.1902; Lissochilus porphyroglossus Rchb.f. 1878; *Lissochilus roseus Lindl. 1843; Lissochilus sandsersonii Rchb.f 1878; Lissochilus sceptrum Schltr. 1915; Lissochilus transvaalensis Rolfe 1912; Lissochilus welwitschii Rchb.f. 1865

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as Lissochilus porphyroglossum; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as Lissochilus sandersoniAOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 5 1957 drawing as Lissochilus horsfallii; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 5 1958 drawing as Lissochilus roseus; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 10 1963 as E porphyroglossa; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as E horsfallii; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as E mahoni; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as E porphyroglossa; AOS bulletin Vol 38 No 1 1969 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 8 1970 photo as E horsfalii; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970 as E horsfalii; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as E horsfallii drawing fide; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 as E horsfallii photo ok; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 as E horsfallii; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1996 as E horsfallii photo ok; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 as E horsfallii; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998 as E horsfallii; Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004 as E horsfalii photo ok; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 photos fide; Terrestrial African Orchids, A select Review John S. Ball 2009 drawing fide

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