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Eulophia saundersiana

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Identification
Eulophia bieleri De Wild. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Eulophia saundersiana Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Oeceoclades saundersiana
  • Lissochilus barombensis
  • Eulophia saundersiana
  • Eulophia bieleri
  • Eulophidium saundersianum

Flora

Entry for EULOPHIA saundersiana Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 12, (1898) Author: (By R. A. Rolfe.)
Names
EULOPHIA saundersiana Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bot. Zeit. 1866, 378. —Reichb. f. in Flora, 1878, 77; Xen. Orch. ii. 174, t. 173.
Lissochilus barombiensis Kränzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 52.
Information
Pseudobulbs ovoid-oblong, 2 1/2–6 in. long, 2-leaved. Leaves petiolate, elliptical-oblong, subacute, 5–9 in. long, 2–3 in. broad; petioles 4–6 in. long. Scapes erect, 1–2 ft. high; racemes 4–6 in. long, many-flowered. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1–3 lin. long. Pedicels 5–8 lin. long. Flowers green, petals and lip with a few broad black lines, centre of the sepals black. Sepals and petals broadly elliptical-oblong, obtuse, 5–6 lin. long. Lip 5–6 lin. long, four-lobed; side lobes broad, rounded; front pair similar but larger; disc smooth, with a broad erect bilobed tubercle at the base; spur clavate- or subclavate-oblong, 1 1/2–2 lin. long. Column stout.
Distribution
Lagos Upper Guinea Millen, 150!Ashanti Upper Guinea Assin-yan-Coomassie, Cummins, 222!Cameroons Upper Guinea Preuss, 96! Kalbreyer (ex Reichenbach).Upper Guinea And a cultivated specimen without locality!
Notes
Flowered at Kew in 1864, and in the collection of W. Wilson Saunders about the same time, being described from the latter source, and said to have been introduced by Mann. Lissochilus barombiensis, Kränzl., is clearly identical.

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