Geodorum eulophioides Schltr. 1921

Plant Photos by © S J Orchids and China Plant Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Eulophia-Like Geodorum - In China Gui Zhou Di Bao Lan

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in southern Guizhou province of China in grasslands at elevations around 800 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with tuberous, irregularily cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 2, well developed at blooming, plicate, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, acute to obtuse gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, to 12.8" [32 cm] long, peduncle erect, taller than the leaves, rachis pendulous, about 1.8" [4.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolte, as long as the flowers floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo fide

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