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Orchid Species: Eulophia abyssinica
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Eulophia abyssinica is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1850.
ORIGIN: Found in Eritrea and Ethiopia in moorland, montane pastures anmd shrubby hillsides at elevations of 2250 to 2600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Largfe sized, cold growing terrestrial with irregularily shaped underground tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying plicate, lanceolate leaves taht blooms in the spring and early summer on an erect, peduncle enveloped almost completely by paper-like tubular sheaths, to 30 [75 cm] long ovedrall, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to linear floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.6 to 2 inches [4 to 5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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