Eulophia graminea Lindl. 1833 SECTION Eulophia
Photos © by Peter O'Byrne, courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, Jaap Vermeulen, and André Schuiteman and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name or Meaning The Grass-Leafed Eulophia - In Japan - Okinawa-imone-yagara - Edauti-yagara - In China Mei Guan Lan - - In Thailand Chang Phasom Khlong
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guihou, Hainan and Yunnan provinces of China, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, western Himalayas, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Borneo, Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines in shady grassy places in open montane forests at elevations of sealevel to 1200 meters as a small to just large sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with large, underground pseudobulbs giving rise to leafy stems or as an inflorescence and carry 7 linear, acute, with the middle leaves being the largest that blooms in the spring on a basal, to 3' [90 cm] long, branching, glaucous, well spaced, many flowered inflorescence with narrowly ovate floral bracts and carrying long-lived successive flowers.
This species, Oeceoclades maculata and Pelexia obliqua have benefited greatly with mans influential expansion across the globe as both have spread to ever wider locations.
Synonyms Eulophia decipiens Kurz 1876; Eulophia gusukumai Masam. 1934; Eulophia inconspicua Griff. 1851; Eulophia ramosa Hayata 1911; Eulophia ucbii Malhotra & Balodi 1984 publ. 1985; Eulophia venusta Schltr. 1919; Graphorchis decipiens (Kurz) Kuntze 1891; Graphorchis graminea (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Graphorchis inconspicua (Griff.) Kuntze 1891
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