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Eulophia missionis

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Name

Identification
Eulophia missionis Rendle [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Eulophia odontoglossa Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Eulophia odontoglossa
  • Eulophia missionis
  • Eulophia shupangae

Flora

Entry for EULOPHIA Missionis Rendle [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 Missionis Rendle [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1895, 168.
Information
Leaves elongate-linear, acute, 1 ft. or more long, 3–4 lin. broad. Scapes 1 1/2 ft. high, with a few rather long sheaths; racemes 3–3 1/2 in. long, many-flowered. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 3–6 lin. long. Pedicels 4–5 lin. long. Sepals ovate-oblong, acute, 6–7 lin. long. Petals oblong, subacute, 5–6 lin. long. Lip 5–6 lin. long, trilobed; side lobes roundish-oblong; front lobe obovate, obtuse or retuse; disc with a pair of keels at the base, strongly papillose-barbate in front; spur oblong, 1 lin. long. Column clavate, 2 lin. long; foot about as long as the column.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. foot of Mount Mlanje, 4000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8618!

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