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Eulophia zeyheri

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Name

Identification
Eulophia zeyheri Hook.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Eulophia zeyheri
Common name
  • yellow bell orchid (Kenya, Barney)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for EULOPHIA Zeyheri Hook. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 3, page 3, (1913) Author: (By R. A. ROLFE.)
Names
EULOPHIA Zeyheri Hook. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 7330
EULOPHIA bicolor Reichb. f. & Sond. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Flora, 1865, 186, partly, not of Blume; Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 184, and Ic. Orch. Austr.-Afr. ii. t. 24; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 19.
EULOPHIA zeyheriana Schlechter [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 50, 25, not of Sond.
Information
rhizomes stout, woody, thickened at the nodes; leaves 2 to 3 in a fascicle, elongate-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, strongly veined, 3/4–1 1/2 ft. long, 1/4–1 1/4 in. broad, with 2 or 3 ovate-lanceolate sheaths at the base; scapes lateral, stout, 1–1 3/4 ft. high, with several loose spathaceous sheaths; racemes very short and dense, subcorymbose when young; bracts linear or lanceolate-linear, acuminate, 3/4–1 1/4 in. long; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 in. long; flowers large, yellow, with a deeper yellow disc to the lip and dark purple side lobes; sepals and petals ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate, 1–1 1/4 in. long; lip broadly elliptic, about as long as the petals, 3-lobed, side lobes short, broadly rounded; front lobe suborbicular, obtuse, very broad; disc with about 11 to 13 slightly thickened veins, bearing numerous long slender filaments, and 2 crenulate keels at the base; spur oblong, obtuse, 1/4 in. long; column clavate-oblong, stout, 1/4 in. long. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 809! near the Chwenka River, between Maclear and Umtata, 3700 ft., Bolus, 8736. Griqualand East, 2500–5000 ft., Tyson, 1591. Natal; near Maritzburg, Sanderson, 826! Inanda, Wood, 1070! Lidgetton, 3000–4000 ft., Wood, 7921! Oliviers Hoek, source of Tugela River, 4000 ft., Allison! Ginginklovu, up to 200 ft., Haygarth in Herb. Wood, 11780! Wylie in Herb. Wood, 11782! and without precise locality, Sanderson!KALAHARI REGION Basutoland, Bryce! Transvaal; Magaliesberg Range, Burke, 336! near Bronkhorst Spruit, Wilms, 1549! ridges near Johannesburg, 5000 ft., Baker! Rand, 1096! Ommanney, 75! 76! Mainwaring, 1042! near Lydenburg, 4900 ft., Schlechter, 3940! Elandsfontein, near Johannesburg, 5500 ft., Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 1428! Rustenburg, 4500 ft., Nation, 34! near Potchefstroom, Nelson, 331! Ermelo, Collins, 6339! Burtt-Davy, 5476a! Pilgrims Rest, Greenstock! Kudus Poort, Pretoria, Rehmann, 4690! Heidelberg district, Burtt-Davy, 5630! 9132! Miss Leendertz, 1038.

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