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Eulophia maculata

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Filed as Eulophia maculata (Lindl.) Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Type of Eulophia mackenii Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Filed as Eulophia maculata (Lindley) Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Eulophia maculata Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Oeceoclades mackenii (Rolfe ex Hemsl.) Garay & P.Taylor [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Eulophia mackenii Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Eulophia mackenii
  • Oeceoclades mackenii
  • Eulophia maculata

Flora

Entry for Oeceoclades maculata (Lindley) Lindley [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 26,
Names
Oeceoclades maculata (Lindley) Lindley [family ORCHIDACEAE], Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl., 237. 1833
Angraecum maculatum Lindley [family ORCHIDACEAE], Coll. Bot., plate, 15 and text on facing page. 1821
Eulophia maculata (Lindley) Reichenbach f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Eulophidium maculatum (Lindley) Pfitzer [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Treatment Author(s)
Roger L. Hammer
Information
Plants 20–43 cm. Roots fibrous, white, stout. Pseudobulbs dark green, ovoid to orbicular, 2–5 × 1–3 cm, often concealed by imbricate fibrous sheaths or 1 closely appressed sheath, 1-leaved at apex. Leaves: blade nearly erect, olive green with dark green mottling, oblong-elliptic, abaxially keeled, 12–32 × 3.5–5.5 cm, succulent leathery, apex acute. Inflorescences lax, 10–42 cm; peduncles erect, slender, with few remote sheaths. Flowers 5–15, 9–15 mm wide; sepals and petals light brown to pinkish green; sepals 8–12 × 2–3 mm; dorsal sepal linear-oblong, apex acute; lateral sepals slightly falcate; petals oblong-elliptic, 12 × 4 mm, apex acute; lip white with 2 parallel pink blotches, 9–14 × 8–12 mm, lateral lobes erect, white with thin, radiating purple lines, orbiculate, spur curved, 5 × 2 mm; column curved, white, 5–7 mm. Capsules pendent, elliptic-oblong, to 3.5 cm.
Phenology
aug (summer), sep-nov (fall)
Altitude range
0–10 m;
Distribution
MexicoWest IndiesCentral AmericaSouth AmericaAfrica.USA Fla.
Discussion
Oeceoclades maculata was first discovered in the United States in Miami-Dade County, Florida in 1974, and is spreading rapidly in central and southern Florida. It is not known whether it escaped from cultivation or arrived in Florida via windblown seeds from the Greater Antilles or the nearby Bahama Archipelago.

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