Name
Identification
Eulophia dissimilis R.A.Dyer [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
Related name
- Eulophia dissimilis
Flora
Entry for Oeceoclades lonchophylla Rchb.f. Garay & P. Taylor [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
Oeceoclades lonchophylla Rchb.f. Garay & P. Taylor [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bot. Mus. Leafl. [Harv. Univ.] 24: 264 (1976). —Stewart et al., Wild Orch. South. Africa: 252 (1982). TAB. 179. Type from Comoro Islands.
Eulophia lonchophylla Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Flora 68: 542 (1885).
Eulophidium lonchophyllum Rchb.f. Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 33: 256 (1925).
Lissochilus lonchophyllus Rchb.f. H. Perrier [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Fl. Madag., fam. 49, Orchidées 2: 26 (1941).
Eulophia tainioides Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 339 (1899). Type: Mozambique, between Morumbene and Massinga, region of Inhambane, Schlechter 12106 (B†, holotype; K; Z).
Eulophidium tainioides Schltr. Summerh. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bull. Jard. Bot. État 27: 403 (1957).
Eulophia dissimilis Dyer [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Fl. Pl. Afr. 27: pl. 1066 (1949). Type: Mozambique, Lebombo Mts, Daintree s.n. (PRE, holotype).
Eulophidium dissimile Dyer [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Fl. Pl. Afr. 27: pl. 1066 (1949), nom. altern. in obs.
Information
Terrestrial herb.Pseudobulbs 4–5 cm long, narrowly conical to ovoid, covered with lanceolate sheaths which disintegrate into soft, fibrous remains, 1-leafed.Leaf stiff, petiolate; petiole 6–19 cm long, grooved above the middle, articulated below the middle to a base 3–6 cm long; lamina 6.5–12 × 1.5–3.5 cm, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, undulate or finely crenate on the margins, green.Inflorescences 1–2, erect, 30–47 cm long, simple or with 1–2 short branches, 20–30-flowered.Scape with 3–4 bracts.Pedicel and ovary slender, 1–2 cm long; bracts 1–2 mm long.Flowers rather small, green or yellowish-cream spotted with green, tinged with purple.Sepals spreading, 6–9 × 1.7–2.2 mm, oblong, acute.Petals 6–7 × 2–3 mm, oblong, obtuse, usually slightly shorter and wider than the sepals.Lip 7–8 mm long, 8–11 mm wide at the base, 3-lobed at about the middle; side lobes erect; mid-lobe 8–11 mm wide when flattened, emarginate or 2-lobed; disk with 2–3 keels; spur 4–5 mm long, conical, obtuse.Column 3–4 mm long, 2 mm wide.
Habitat
Coastal forest
Altitude range
0–200 m.
200
0
Distribution
Mozambique MS Sofala Prov. (Beira Distr.), forest near Dondo, 60 m, st. 16.iv.1961, Ball 931 (K; SRGH).Mozambique GI Marracuene (Vila Luísa), fl. 10.ix.1960, Pickering s.n. (K).Mozambique M Inhaca Island, 0–200 m, Ponta Torres, N forest, fl. 4.iii.1958, Mogg s.n. (K); Maputo (Lourenço Marques), Fonte de Goba, fl. 30.i.1970, Carvalho 1056 (K; LMU).
Distribution (external)
Tanzania
South Africa
Comoro Islands