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(Last Modified On 1/4/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/4/2013)
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Species
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EULOPHIA ALTA (L.) Fawc. & Rendle
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PlaceOfPublication
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Fl. Jam. 1:112, t. 22, figs. 4-8. 1910.
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Synonym
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Limodorum altu-m L. Syst. ed. 12, 2:594. 1767. Dendrobium longifolium HBK. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1:360. 1815. Cyrtopodium Woodfordii Sims, in Bot. Mag. t. i814. 1816. Cyrtopera Woodfordii Lindley, Gen. & Sp. Orch. Pl. 189. 1833. Cyrtopera longifolia Rchb. f. in Walp. Ann. 6:668. 1861. Eulophia Woodfordii Rolfe, in Fl. Trop. Afr. 7:68. 1897. Eulophia longifolia (HBK.) Schltr. Die Orchideen, p. 347. 1914.
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Description
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Erect terrestrial herbs with thickened, tuberous rhizomes usually made up of roughly triangular, subconic, corm-like annual sections. Leaves several, erect, lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, strongly veined, ultimately deciduous, 60-120 cm. long and 2-10 cm. wide, contracted below into a cylindric leafy petiole, the broad bases enveloping the corm-like pseudobulb. Inflorescences erect, lateral, leafless scapes, produced from the base of the corm, terminating in a raceme 70-100 cm. tall. Flowers many, of moderate size. Sepals free, erect, subequal, lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute, 2-2.5 cm. long and 0.7-0.8 cm. wide, the laterals adnate at the base to the column foot. Petals erect, oblong, obtuse, subequal to the sepals, 1.5-1.7 cm. long and 0.7-0.8 cm. broad. Lip 3-lobed, lateral lobes rounded, erect, the apices spreading, mid-lobe entire, usually reflexed, with numerous minutely denticulate longitudinal nerves; disk with 2 erect, alate processes, the base sub- saccate, forming a rounded mentum with the foot of the column. Column winged, arcuate, 0.8-1.0 cm. long, produced at the base into a foot.
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Distribution
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Florida, Mexico, British Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, the West Indies, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, and Brazil.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: Mata Redonda, sea level, Pawell 3442; hills and valleys east of city, sea level, Powell 10; vic. La Chorrera, sea level, Allen 2080. COCLE: vic. El Valle de Anton, 600 m., Allen 1988.
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Note
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Rather frequent terrestrial plants found in areas of wet savanna and along roadways, sometimes persisting in vacant lots in Panama City. The leaves. are reminiscent of those of Bletia or Peristeria. The sepals and petals are green or greenish tan, the lip variously shaded with rose or purple.
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