Eulophia andamanensis Rchb.f.

"Eulophia andamanensis Rchb.f. is an orchid found to occur among the Andaman and Nicobar group of Islands (off the east coast of India and also in the north-western tip of Langkawi island in Malaysia.The occurrence of this ground orchid in Andaman Islands is restricted to some isolated pockets of certain islands and rare. Living collections of this taxon from the Andaman Islands is under ex situ conservation outside the islands at the Field Gene Bank of Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Trivandrum, India. It is a pre-tsunami accession."

Eulophia andamanensis Rchb.f., Flora 55: 276 (1872).

Eulophia andamanensis Rchb.f., Photo by Azman Harun

Eulophia andamanensis Rchb.f., Photo by Shashidhar Sastry

its native range is Indo-China to N. Sumatera.

Latinh Name: 

Eulophia andamanensis Rchb.f.

Synonym:

Cyrtopera andamanensis (Rchb.f.) Rolfe

Eulophia keithii Ridl.

Eulophia poilanei Gagnep.

Graphorkis andamanensis (Rchb.f.) Kuntze

Vietnamese name:

Luân lan Ađaman, Lan luân hoa xanh

English Name:

The Andaman Eulophia.

Thailand name: 

Mu Kling

Description: 

With cylindrical-conical, six noded pseudobulbs carrying 6, grass-like, acute, keeled leaves with the lower ones smaller than the upper that blooms in the fall on an erect, to 19.5 cm long, many 10 to 15 flowered racemose inflorescence with triangular, acute floral bracts carrying long-lasting flowers occuring in the spring and fall with leafless pseudobulbs.

Distribution:

Andaman Is., Cambodia, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam (Quảng Nam, Đà Nẵng, Khánh Hoà, Ninh Thuận, Đồng Nai).

Ecological:

A medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial in grass or wastelands.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the fall.

Flower size:

2.5 cm.

Cultivation:

It can be grown in full sun, in sandy soils. 

Light Preference: Full Sun

Water Preference: Moderate Water

Propagation Method: Division

Type:

Mar 1, 1970 Curtis, C. [s.n.], Malaysia K000078337 syntype