| Eulophia guinense photo C. Solimbergo |
| taxonomy | described by | Lindley, John |
| published in | Botanical Register 8 : t . 686 1823 | |
| family | Orchidaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Cymbidieae | |
| subtribe | Eulophiinae | |
| genus | Eulophia R.Brown & Lindley 1823 | |
| chromosomes | 2n = 54 | |
| metabolism |
CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. |
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| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
| native of | origins | poor rocky soil in the Islands of Cape Verde, Benin, Burkina Faso (Boromo Boromo), |
| Gambia, Ghana (Ashanti,Kumavu, Nampong, Accra), Guinea (Labe), Cote d 'Ivoire, Mali (Massif de Kita), | ||
| Nigeria (Savannah, Bojo Plateau,Onitsha, Akpaka forest) Senegal, Sierra Leone (Bunce Island), | ||
| Togo, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo (Ruzizi Valley,Lake Tanganyika), Gabon, Rwanda, Zaire, | ||
| Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia (Gore), Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania (Kigoma, Mbeya, Nyassa, Kyimbila), Uganda, | ||
| Malawi, Zambia (Nyika Plateau), Zimbabwe, Oman, Saudi Arabia (Jabal Shada), Yemen | ||
| altitude | 810 - 2000 m (2673 - 6600 ft) | |
| habitat |
climate informations from Mali (Labe, Guinea) |
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| Köppen climate classification : Aw, tropical savanna climate (with a dry season and a rainy season) | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1400 m / 4620 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Mali this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 48 m' to 11 h 12 m' | |
| life form | geophyte | |
| brightness | partial shade | |
| inflorescence | length | 60 - 74 cm (24" - 30"), basal |
| nr flowers | 9 - 13, fragrants | |
| size | single flower 6 L 4 cm (2.4" L 1.6") - inflorescence 30 L 10 cm (12" L 4") | |
| duration | inflorescence ≈ 50 days | |
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ 30 - 40 days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
