The Spectacular Eulophia

Description:

a large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial orchid with subterranean, almost round pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few imbricate, lanceolate sheaths, carrying 3 to 4, lanceolate, plicate, acuminate, long petiolate leaves that wrap and enfold each other and narrow below into a long, grooved stalk which has below several leaf-like bracts and blooms in the spring on a to 12 to 40" [30 to 100 cm] tall, thick, fleshy, few to several [2 to 20] flowered inflorescence bearing several, ovate-elliptic, acute to acuminate, sterile bracts and has linear-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts and carrying sometimes fragrant flowers.

Habitat:

Found in Assam India, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Sri Lanka, western Himalayas, S. China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanamar, Thailand, Malaysia, Java, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Caroline Islands and the Mariana Islands in open grasslands and swamps, roadcuts and disturbed soils at elevations of 200 to 900 meters