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Orchid Species: Eulophia rutenbergiana
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Eulophia rutenbergiana is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in 1882.
ORIGIN: Found in Madagascar in secondary grasslands and on rocky slopes at elevations of 500 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an underground rhizome giving rise to corm-like, irregular, 1 to 4 angled, 3 to 4 undulate, ribbed pseudobulbs with narrow, grass-like, suberect leaves that become deciduous before flowering and blooming in the late spring through earlier fall on an erect, 16 to 24 [40 to 60cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence that is 10 to 12 times longer than the cluster of flowers held towards the apex with thin, reddish, narrowly linear-lanceolate, fliliform, longer than the pedicel floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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