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Eulophia tisserantii is an orchid species identified by Szlach. & Olszewski in 2001. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Eulophia monile.
ORIGIN: Found in Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, Zimbabwe and Mozambique in Brachystegia woodlands at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Very small sized, slender, warm to cool growing terrestrial. This is one of the smallest and most inconspicuous species in the genus, usually less than 15 cm tall, and likely to be overlooked. It is leafless at flowering time which is in the spring. The orchid has subterraean, ovoid to elliptic, several noded tubers giving rise to 2 to 7, vestigal, brownish, leaves that blooms on 1 to 3, 7 to 20 flowered, often secund, inflorescence with a median, short sheath. Flowers drooping and not opening widely.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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