Eulophia ensata
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Matutuine District, Mozambique
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Terrestrial orchid, 30-100 cm tall. Underground organs consisting of tubers forming chains. Leaves c. 3, erect, up to 90 × 1.5 cm, linear, acuminate, plicate, partly to fully developed at flowering time. Inflorescence short and dense. Flowers not opening wide, pale to bright yellow, the crests on the lip deeper yellow. Lip 15 mm long, 3-lobed at about halfway, with 2 broad ridges in the basal half of the lip passing into dense, slender papillae all over the mid-lobe; side lobes oblong; mid-lobe oblong, the apex truncate or emarginate, sometimes mucronate. Spur 4–7 mm long, cylindrical, very slender. |
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South Africa. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | ensata: from the Latin ensatus, a sword, possibly referring to the shape of the leaves. |
| Habitat: | In grassland and coastal bush. |
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| Flowering time: | Aug - Nov |
| Worldwide distribution: | Mozambique, South Africa and Eswatini. |
| FZ divisions: | M |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Bandeira, S., Bolnick, D. & Barbosa, F. (2007). Wild Flowers of Southern Mozambique Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique Page 73. (Includes a picture). La Croix, I. & Cribb, P.J. (1998). Orchidaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 11(2) Page 505. |
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