Name
Identification
Eulophia odontoglossa Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hall, G.V., Eulophia shupangae (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Verified by Summerhayes, V.S., Eulophia durbanensis Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
Related name
- Eulophia odontoglossa
- Eulophia durbanensis
- Eulophia shupangae
Flora
Entry for Eulophia odontoglossa Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 11, Part 2, (1998) Author: I. la Croix & P.J. Cribb
Names
Cyrtopera shupangae Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Otia Bot. Hamburg., part 2: 116 (1881). Type: Mozambique, Chupanga (Shupanga), Kirk (K, holotype).
Cyrtopera papillosa Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1893: 336 (1893). Type from South Africa.
Cyrtopera holstiana Kraenzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas C: 157 (1895). Type from Tanzania.
Eulophia odontoglossa Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Linnaea 19: 373 (1847). —Hall in J. S. African Bot., Suppl. 5: 197 (1965). —Grosvenor in Excelsa 6: 81 (1976). —Williamson, Orch. S. Centr. Africa: 158 (1977). —Stewart et al., Wild Orch. South. Africa: 248 (1982). —Kemp, Fl. Checklist Swaziland: 23 (1983). —Cribb in F.T.E.A., Orchidaceae pt. 3: 458 (1989). —la Croix et al., Orch. Malawi: 309 (1991). —Geerinck in Fl. Afr. Centr., Orchidaceae pt. 2: 680 (1992). —Stewart, Orch. Kenya: 121 (1996). Type from South Africa.
Eulophia shupangae Rchb.f. Kraenzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas C: 157 (1895) —Summerhayes in Norlindh & Weimarck in Bot. Not. 1937: 200 (1937); in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 247 (1968). —Williamson, Orch. S. Centr. Africa: 157 (1977).
Eulophia missionis Rendle [family ORCHIDACEAE], in J. Bot. 33: 168 (1895). Type: Malawi, Mt. Mulanje, Dec. 1894, Scott Elliot 8618 (BM, holotype; K).
Eulophia papillosa Rolfe Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 20, Beibl. 50: 25 (1895). —Schinz in Mém. Herb. Boissier, No. 10: 31 (1900). —Suessenguth & Merxmüller, Contrib. Fl. Marandellas Distr.: 83 (1951).
Eulophia chrysantha Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 20, Beibl. 50: 2 (1895). Type from South Africa.
Eulophia graciliscapa Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 24: 418 (1897). Type: Malawi, without exact locality, Wood 5196 (B†, holotype; K, record of holotype).
Eulophia aurea Kraenzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boissier 5: 635 (1897). Type: Mozambique, Delagoa Bay, Junod 187 (G, holotype).
Eulophia johnstonii Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE], in F.T.A. 7: 66 (1897). Type from Tanzania.
Eulophia panganiana Kraenzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 169 (1900). Type from Tanzania.
Eulophia durbanensis Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1917: 83 (1917). Type from South Africa.
Eulophia propinqua Hutch. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1921: 401 (1921). Type from Nigeria.
Information
Terrestrial herb 50–100 cm tall.Perennating organs subterranean, tuberous, irregularly fusiform-conical or subglobose, 2–4 × 1.8–2.5 cm, white with brown nodes; roots fine, from base of new growth, 1 mm in diameter.Leaves 5–6, erect, the basal 3 sheathing, 40–70 cm × 7–21 mm, oblanceolate, acuminate, grass-like, plicate, fairly well developed at flowering time.Inflorescence densely many-flowered; scape covered by 7 papery pale brown sheaths; rhachis 4–13 cm long.Pedicel and ovary 12–21 mm long; bracts 8–22 mm long, linear-aristate.Flowers bright yellow with yellow, orange or red papillae on lip, less commonly brown, crimson or purple.Dorsal sepal 9.3–12 × 4–5.8 mm, ovate-elliptic, obtuse; lateral sepals 9–14 × 3–6 mm, obliquely ovate, acute.Petals 8–12 × 3.3–5 mm, obliquely elliptic, subacute to obtuse.Lip 8–12 mm long, 4–10 mm wide, 3-lobed; side-lobes porrect, acute to rounded at apex; mid-lobe oblong, subquadrate or obovate, obtuse or truncate; callus of 2 basal ridges with long papillae over basal three-quarters of mid-lobe; spur shortly conical-cylindric, 1–3 mm long.Column 4–4.7 mm long; foot 3–4.3 mm long.Fruit pendent, 18 mm long.
Habitat
Open montane or submontane grassland, dambos and seasonally wet areas in plateau and coastal grasslands, in sandy soils and rocky areas;
Range
Throughout tropical Africa from Guinea and Sierra Leone to Ethiopia and southwards to South Africa (Transvaal and KwaZulu-Natal).
Altitude range
0–2100 m.
2100
0
Distribution
Zambia N Mbala Distr., Itembwe Gorge, 1500 m, fl. 3.i.1960, Richards 12059 (K).Zimbabwe C Macheke, 1500 m, fl. 18.i.1950, Greatrex in GHS 26689 (K; SRGH).Malawi N South Viphya, in dambo at approach to Forest Reserve, 1500 m, fl. 3.i.1983, la Croix 387 (K).Mozambique Z road from Cundine to Naguexa, fl. 7.i.1905, Le Testu 639 (K).Zambia C 8 km east of Lusaka, fl. 26.xi.1955, King 218 (K).Zambia E Nyika Plateau, road to Rest House, 2100 m, fl. 2.i.1959, Richards 10389 (K).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani Distr., Chipinge (Chipinga) road, Chimanimani (Melsetter), fl. 27.i.1951, A.O. Crook 362 (K; SRGH).Malawi C Ntcheu Distr., Mlanda, c. 1500 m, fl. iii.1956, Adlard 238E (K; FHO).Malawi S Zomba Mt., 1850 m, fl. 25.i.1959, Robson 1311 (K).Mozambique MS Chupanga (Shupanga), fl. i.1859, Kirk s.n. (K).Mozambique M Maputo, 4 km from Ponta do Ouro, fl. 3.i.1980, de Koning 7900 (K; LMU).