Eulophia rara Schltr. 1915 Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Partial shade Warm Cool Spring EARLY summer

Common Name The Rare Eulophia

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique in deciduous woodlands as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with subterranean, irregularily shaped tubers giving rise to 4 to 5, basal 3 sheathing, the others linear, acute, grass-like, present at flowereding leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on an erect, peduncle with 2 to 3 tubular sheaths, 8 to 14.4" [20 to 36 cm] long, laxly to densely few to several flowered inflorescence with linear, acuminate, reflexed floral bracts.

Synonyms Orthochilus rarus (Schltr.) Bytebier 2014

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 3 Cribb 1989; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae part 2 Pope 1998;

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