Eulophia flava (Lindl.) Hook.f.

 
  • Family : ORCHIDACEAE
    (Orchid Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Orchidaceae
  • Basionym : Cyrtopera flava Lindl.
  • Synonym(s) : Cyrtopera cullenii Wight; Cyrtopodium flavum (Lindl.) Benth.; Eulophia cullenii (Wight) Blume; Graphorkis flava (Lindl.) Kuntze; Lissochilus flavus (Lindl.) Schltr.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Eulophia flava (Lindl.) Hook.f.
  • Common name : Yellow Eulophia
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Crevices along streamsides, open grassy slopes; 500 - 1000 m. altitude
  • Comments / notes : Terrestrial
  • Key identification features : Flowers lemon-yellow; lip 25-30 mm
  • Flower, Fruit : March-June
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, Chittoor district
    • Kerala : Wayanad district, Thrissur district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
  • Native : Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
  • World Distribution : Himalaya to China (South-West Guangxi)
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • Prasad, K et al 2012 Conservation of Wild Orchids in Sri Krishnadevaraya University botanical garden, Ananthapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 4(7)
    • 2705-2708
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
    • Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 228
    • Kumar P. et. al., (2008). Orchidaceae, Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya, India. Check List 4(3): 304–323
    • Jalal J.S. and Jayanthi J., (2015)
    • AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE ORCHIDS OF WESTERN HIMALAYA, INDIA. LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7-50
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Eulophia flava. Downloaded on 11 October 2024.

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