IOSPE PHOTOS

Eulophia spectabilis (Dennst.) Suresh 1988 SECTION Cyrtopera

Common Name The Spectacular Eulophia

Flower Size 1 to 1.2” [2.5 to 3 cm]

Found in Assam India, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Sri Lanka, western Himalayas, S. China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanamar, Thailand, Malaysia, Java, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Caroline Islands and the Mariana Islands in open grasslands and swamps, roadcuts and disturbed soils at elevations of sea level to 900 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial orchid with subterranean, almost round pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few imbricate, lanceolate sheaths, carrying 3 to 4, lanceolate, plicate, acuminate, long petiolate leaves that wrap and enfold each other and narrow below into a long, grooved stalk which has below several leaf-like bracts and blooms in the spring on a to 12 to 40" [30 to 100 cm] tall, thick, fleshy, few to several [2 to 20] flowered inflorescence bearing several, ovate-elliptic, acute to acuminate, sterile bracts and has linear-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms Cyrtopera fusca Wight 1851; Cyrtopera gardneri Thwaites 1861; Cyrtopera godefroyi Rchb.f. 1878; Cyrtopera laxiflora Gardner ex Thwaites 1861; Cyrtopera mysorensis Lind. 1859; Cyrtopera nuda (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1872; Cyrtopera plicata Lindl. 1833; Cyrtopera regnieri Rchb.f. 1886; Cyrtopera squalida (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1857; Cyrtopodium bicolor (Blume) Ridl. 1885; Cyrtopodium squalidum (Lindl.) Vidal 1885; Eulophia bicolor Dalzell 1851; Eulophia elata Hook.f. 1890; Eulophia bicolor Blume 1859; Eulophia bicolor var. celebica J.J.Sm. 1922; Eulophia burkei Rolfe ex Downie 1925; Eulophia celebica Blume 1859; Eulophia elongata Blume 1859; Eulophia fusca (Wight) Blume 1859; Eulophia hildebrandii Schltr. 1919; Eulophia holochila Collett & Hemsl. 1890; Eulophia lutea Blume 1859; Eulophia macgregorii Ames 1914; Eulophia mucronata Blume 1859; Eulophia nuda Lindl. 1833; Eulophia regnieri (Rchb.f.) Guillaumin 1955; Eulophia squalida Lindl. 1841; Eulophia sumatrana Blume 1859; Geodorum pierrei Gagnep. 1932; Graphorkis bicolor (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Graphorkis elata (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Graphorkis holochila (Collett & Hemsl.) Kuntze 1891; Graphorkis nuda (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Graphorkis squalida (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Graphorkis sumatrana (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Phaius steppicolus Hand.-Mazz. 1925; Semiphajus chevalieri Gagnep. 1932; *Wolfia spectabilis Dennst. 1818

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Cyrtopera holochila; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as E squalida; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Cyrtopera nuda; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Cyrtopera squalida; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as E squalida; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997 as Eulophia nuda; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; A to Z of SE Asian Orchids O'Byrne 2001; The Orchids Of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1992; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Borneo Chan, Shim, Lamb & Wood 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2007

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