Orchidaceae

Eulophia R.Br.

First published in Bot. Reg. 7: t. 573 (1821), nom. cons.
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropics & Subtropics.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Central American Pac, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, Free State, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Marianas, Mauritius, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Niue, North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Solomon Is., Somalia, South Carolina, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Extinct in:

Seychelles

Introduced into:

Argentina Northwest, Cayman Is., Netherlands Antilles

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • (2021). https://doi.org/10.11646/PHYTOTAXA.491.1.5. epublication.
  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2009). Epidendroideae (Part two). Genera Orchidacearum 5: 1-585. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Bot. Reg. t. 686 (1823)
  • F.T.A. 7: 47, 70. Nom. cons.

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 180 (1833).
  • Hall in J. S. African Bot., Suppl. 5: 1–248 (1965).
  • Hooker f. in Fl. Brit. Ind. 6: 1 (1891).
  • Otia Bot. Hamburg., part 1: 66 (1878)
  • Otia Bot. Hamburg., part 2: 116 (1881).
  • Reichenbach f. in Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 644 (1863)
  • Rolfe in F.T.A. 7: 47 (1897).
  • Seidenfaden in Opera Bot. 72: 28 (1983), nom. conserv.
  • in Bot. Reg. 7: sub t. 573 (1821)
  • in Bot. Reg. 8: sub t. 686 (1823)

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by B. Pettersson [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • 8, t. 686 (1823)
  • Gen. Sp. Orch. Pl.: 180 (1833)
  • Hall in S. Afr. Journ. Bot., Suppl. 5: 1–248 (1965)
  • Hook.f. in Fl. Brit. Ind. 6: 1 (1891)
  • Reichb.f. in Otia Bot. Hamb. 5: 66 (1878)
  • Reichb.f. in Otia Bot. Hamb. 6: 116 (1881)
  • Reichb.f. in Walp., Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 644 (1863)
  • Rolfe in F.T.A. 7: 47 (1897)
  • Seidenfaden in Opera Bot. 72: 28 (1983), nom. conserv.
  • in Bot. Reg. 7, sub t. 573 (1821)

Eulophiinae: e-monocot.org

  • Armstrong, A. Evolution: dryland orchid divergence. Nature Plants 1, (2015).
  • Cribb, P.J. & Polhill, R.M. Flora of Tropical East Africa, Orchidaceae (Part 3). 238 (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 1989).
  • Hall, A.V. Studies of the South African species of Eulophia. South African Journal of Botany 5, 248 (1965).
  • Lindley, J. Original description of Eulophia. 7, (1821).
  • Martos, F., Johnson, S.D., Peter, C.I. & Bytebier, B. A molecular phylogeny reveals paraphyly of the large genus Eulophia (Orchidaceae): A case for the reinstatement of Orthochilus. Taxon 63, 9 - 23 (2014).
  • Stern, W.L. & Judd, W.S. Comparative anatomy and systematics of Catasetinae (Orchidaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 136, 153 - 178 (2008).
  • Stern, W.L. & Judd, W.S. Systematic and comparative anatomy of Cymbidieae (Orchidaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 139, 1 - 27 (2002).
  • Summerhayes, V.S. & Hall, A.V. The type species and conservation of the generic name Eulophia R.Br. ex Lindl. Taxon 11, pp. 201-203 (1962).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Barnes, E. [2173], India 10941.000 No
Richards, H.M. [4452], Tanzania 10945.000 No
10995.000 No
Williamson, G. [111], Zambia 11887.002 No
Richards, H.M. [7200], Tanzania 142.000 No
Williamson, G. [313], Zambia 17326.017 No
Williamson, G. [640], Zambia 17326.018 No
Williamson, G. [598], Zambia 17326.019 No
Williamson, G. [779], Zambia 17326.026 No
19190.000 No
19192.000 No
29109.000 No
Zimbabwe 29588.000 No
Morze, G. [132], Zambia 30103.000 No
Richards, H.M. [19488], Zambia 30149.000 No
Zimbabwe 30227.000 No
Fanshawe, D.B. [F8957], Zambia 30318.000 No
Zimbabwe 30808.000 No
Ball, J.S. [700 (6H.8093], Zimbabwe 30828.000 No
Zimbabwe 30830.000 No
Holmes [038] 30946.000 No
Paterson, K.R. 30971.000 No
30974.000 No
Milne-Redhead, E. [2779] 30977.000 No
30987.000 No
Fanshawe, D.B. [F.8985], Zambia 33003.000 No
Fanshawe [F.8928], Zambia 33023.000 No
Williamson, G. [603], Zambia 33118.000 No
Williamson, G. [138], Zambia 33121.000 No
Williamson, G. [700], Zambia 33141.000 No
Williamson, G. [582], Zambia 33142.000 No
Williamson, G. [721], Zambia 33146.000 No
Williamson, G. [702], Zambia 33165.000 No
Williamson, G. [302], Zambia 33185.000 No
Williamson, G. [224], Zambia 34444.000 No
Ash [451], Ethiopia 35353.000 No
Leedal, G.P. [4911], Tanzania 40325.000 No
Pettersson, B. [318], Malawi 48787.000 No
Fay, J.M. [7341], Central African Republic 49110.000 No
Jenkins, P. [s.n.], Malawi 56291.000 No
Williamson, G. [642], Zambia 6049.320 No
Williamson, G. [786], Zambia 900.063 No
Du Puy, B. [MB449], Madagascar 71857.000 No
Hermans, J. [29/4], Madagascar 64544.000 No
Hermans, J. [27/1], Madagascar 72618.000 No
Hermans, J. [17/x], Madagascar 72439.000 No
Hermans, J. [16/2], Madagascar 72435.000 No
Madagascar 72725.000 No
Holmes, W.D. [362], Zambia 74886.000 No
Holmes, W.D. [180, 178, 167 or 181], Zambia 75885.000 No
Holmes, W.D. [362, 369 or 370], Zambia 75907.000 No
Holmes, W.D. [035, 039 or 044], Zambia 75900.000 No
Holmes, Zambia 77395.000 No
Holmes, W.D. [181, 180, 178 or 167], Zambia 75908.000 No
Holmes, W.D., Zambia 75890.000 No
Odgers [109] 77362.000 No
Holmes, W.D. [181, 180, 178 or 167], Zambia 75894.000 No
Holmes, W.D. [362], Zambia 75909.000 No
Kerr, A.D., Laos Geodorum 32375.000 No
Kerr, A.D. [1068], Laos Geodorum 7641.000 No
Roberts, D. [TPPO 55c], Madagascar Eulophiella 73739.000 No
la Croix, I, Zimbabwe Pteroglossaspis 60098.000 No
Du Puy, B. [MB190], Madagascar Lissochilus 56366.000 No
Hermans, J. [16/1], Madagascar Lissochilus 72436.000 No
Tanzania Oeceoclades 19966.000 No
Casteline, J. [H 347/67], Kenya Oeceoclades 31069.000 No
Madagascar Oeceoclades 61517.000 No
Madagascar Oeceoclades 61519.000 No
Madagascar Oeceoclades 61521.000 No
Oeceoclades 8828.000 No
Tanzania Oeceoclades 8843.000 No
Madagascar Oeceoclades 72721.000 No

Sources

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  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
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  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

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