Graphorkis lurida (Sw.) Kuntze 1891 Photo by © Lourens Grobler.

Plant and Capsules Photos courtesy of Photo courtesy of Guy Ramette-Vovan and his Gabon Orchids Website

Common Name or Meaning The Pale Graphorkis

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Benin, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal, Siera Leone, Togo, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, Zaire, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda in lower to mid-level forests at elevations of 300 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with ovoid, yellowish, ribbed, clump-forming pseudobulbs enveloped completely by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 4 to 9, thin, plicate, deciduous, leaves that blooms in the spring on a basal, 6 to 20" [15 to 50 cm] long, branching, many flowered inflorescence arising before the new growth.

Synonyms Angraecum luridum (Sw.) Lindl. ex Steud. 1840; Eulophia longicollis Lindl. 1862; Eulophia lurida (Sw.) Lindl. 1833; Eulophia virilis Lindl. 1862; Eulophiopsis lurida (Sw.) Schltr. 1914; *Limodorum luridum Sw. 1805

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide;

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