Eulophia juncifolia Summerh. 1958

Inflorescence in situ Ivory Coast

Photos by Stefan Porembski and The West African Plant Website

Common Name The Reed Like Leaved Eulophia

Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]

Found in Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkino Faso, Cameroon and Chad in grass plains, wet savannah forest and in wet meadows at lower elevations as a medium to large sized, hot growing terrestrial orchid with a tuberous rhizome giving rise to 2 to 3, cylindrical, acute, present at flowering leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, 28 to 40" [70 to 100 cm] long, successively few, several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"The present species is characterised by the very narrow rush-like leaves. These are not actually terete but are very fleshy and so closely conduplicate that the two sides almost meet to produce a terete appearance. The leaves appear soon after the scape and are therefore well expanded before the flowers go over whereas in the east African members of this alliance the leaves are never fully expanded at anthesis.. In fact in many cases no sign can be seen of them at that period. The middle lobe of the labellum is thinner in texture than in E schweinfurthii much crisped at the margins and often more or less incurved at the apex." Summerhayes 1958

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Kew Bull. 13: 78 Summerhayes 1958

Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide;

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