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Eulophia gracilis

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Name

Identification
Eulophia gracilis Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Eulophia gracilis
Common name
  • green ground orchid (Morton)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for EULOPHIA gracilis Lindl. [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 gracilis Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Bot. Reg. t. 742.
Limodorum ciliatum Schum. & Thonn. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl. 400.
Galeandra gracilis Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Gen. & Sp. Orch. 187; Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 133; Reichb. f. in Flora, 1878, 77; Kränzl. in Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. ii. (1889), 156.
Galeandra extinctoria Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Gen. & Sp. Orch. 187.
Eulophia ciliata Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Walp. Ann. vi. 647; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 20.
Eulophia Preussii Kränzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Engl., Jahrb. xvii. 54.
Information
Stems pseudobulbous at the base, 1–2 1/2 in. long. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, attenuate and narrow at the base, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 3/4–1 in. broad. Scapes 1 1/2–2 ft. high; racemes 6–9 in. long, lax. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 4–7 lin. long. Pedicels 6–9 lin. long. Sepals lanceolate-oblong, acute, 5–7 lin. long, 2 1/2 lin. broad. Petals rather smaller than the sepals. Lip shortly and broadly funnel-shaped, truncate, deeply fimbriate, with an oblong tooth near the apex; spur 4 lin. long, conical at the base, constricted in the middle, and clavate at the apex. Column stout, 2 lin. long, puberulous.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Bumban to Lokko, Scott-Elliot, 5732! 5738! Sugar-loaf Mountain, Preuss; Bagru River, Mann, 903! and without precise locality, Don! Wilford!Liberia Upper Guinea Carder!Lagos Upper Guinea cultivated specimen!
Notes
I fail to find any character in the description by which to separate E. Preussii, Kränzl.

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