Biology:List of Eulophia species

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The following is a list of Eulophia species recognised by Plants of the World Online (As of December 2023):[1]

  • Eulophia abyssinica Rchb.f. (Ethiopia, Eritrea)
  • Eulophia aculeata (L.f.) Spreng. (Southern Africa)
  • Eulophia acutilabra Summerh. (South Congo to southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia adenoglossa (Lindl.) Rchb.f. (Tropical and Southern Africa)
  • Eulophia albobrunnea Kraenzl. (Ethiopia)
  • Eulophia alismatophylla Rchb.f.
  • Eulophia aloifolia Welw. ex Rchb.f. (Angola)
  • Eulophia alta (L.) Fawc. & Rendle (Tropical Africa, southern Florida, Mexico to tropical America)
  • Eulophia amblyosepala (Schltr.) Butzin (Uganda)
  • Eulophia ambongensis Schltr.
  • Eulophia ambrensis (H.Perrier) Butzin
  • Eulophia analamerensis (H.Perrier) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia analavelensis (H.Perrier) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia andamanensis Rchb.f. (Andaman and Nicobar Islands to Langkawi, Malaysia)
  • Eulophia angolensis (Rchb.f.) Summerh. (Tropical and southern Africa)
  • Eulophia angornensis (Rchb.f.) P.J.Cribb (Comoros)
  • Eulophia angustilabris Seidenf. (Thailand)
  • Eulophia antsingyensis (G.Gerlach) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia antunesii Rolfe (Angola)
  • Eulophia arenicola Schltr. (South Congo to Botswana)
  • Eulophia atrovirens Lindl.
  • Eulophia attenuata (Griff.) M.W.Chase, Kumar & Schuit.
  • Eulophia aurantiaca Rolfe (Africa)
  • Eulophia barbata (Thunb.) Spreng.
  • Eulophia barteri Summerh. (West tropical Africa to Central African Republic).
  • Eulophia beravensis Rchb.f.
  • Eulophia bicallosa (D.Don) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. (Taiwan, tropical Asia to North Australia )
  • Eulophia biloba Schltr. (Mozambique)
  • Eulophia bisaccata Kraenzl. (Mozambique ?)
  • Eulophia boinensis (Schltr.) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia bolusii (Rolfe) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia borbonica Bosser (Réunion)
  • Eulophia borneensis Ridl. (Borneo, Sarawak)
  • Eulophia bosseriana M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia bouliawongo (Rchb.f.) J.Raynal (Nigeria to Angola)
  • Eulophia brachycentra Hayata (Taiwan)
  • Eulophia bracteosa Lindl. (Assam to South Central China )
  • Eulophia brenanii P.J.Cribb & la Croix (South Congo to North Zambia)
  • Eulophia buettneri (Kraenzl.) Summerh. (West tropical Africa to Cameroon)
  • Eulophia × burundiensis Arbonn. & Geerinck (Burundi)
  • Eulophia calantha Schltr. (Africa)
  • Eulophia calanthoides Schltr. (southern Africa)
  • Eulophia calcarata (Schltr.) Schltr.
  • Eulophia callichroma Rchb.f. (Tanzania to Eswatini)
  • Eulophia callmanderi (Bosser) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia campbellii Prain (India)
  • Eulophia capuroniana (Bosser & Morat) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia caricifolia (Rchb.f.) Summerh. (tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia carsonii Rolfe (Africa)
  • Eulophia chaunanthe Seidenf. (Thailand)
  • Eulophia chilangensis Summerh. (South Congo to Angola)
  • Eulophia chlorantha Schltr. (Africa)
  • Eulophia chlorotica Kraenzl.
  • Eulophia chrysea M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia chrysoglossoides Schltr. (North Borneo)
  • Eulophia citrina (Andrews) Ormerod & Kurzweil
  • Eulophia clandestina (Börge Pett.) Bytebier (Angola)
  • Eulophia clitellifera (Rchb.f.) Bolus (tropical and southern Africa, Madagascar)
  • Eulophia cochlearis Lindl.
  • Eulophia coddii A.V.Hall (Northern Prov. of South Africa)
  • Eulophia coeloglossa Schltr. (Tanzania to southern Africa)
  • Eulophia cooperi Rchb.f. (southern Africa)
  • Eulophia cordylinophylla Rchb.f.
  • Eulophia corymbifera J.M.H.Shaw (Zambia)
  • Eulophia corymbosa Schltr.
  • Eulophia coutreziana Geerinck
  • Eulophia cristata (Afzel. ex Sw.) Steud. (West tropical Africa to Ethiopia)
  • Eulophia cucullata (Afzel. ex Sw.) Steud. (tropical and southern Africa, Madagascar)
  • Eulophia dabia (D.Don) Hochr. (Afghanistan to South China)
  • Eulophia dactylifera P.J.Cribb (southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia dahliana Kraenzl. (New Guinea to Bismarck Islands)
  • Eulophia decaryana H.Perrier
  • Eulophia dentata Ames (Luzon)
  • Eulophia dichroma Rolfe
  • Eulophia diffusiflora M.W.Chase, Kumar & Schuit.
  • Eulophia distans (Summerh.) ined. (Sierra Leone)
  • Eulophia divergens Fritsch (Angola)
  • Eulophia dufossei Guillaumin (Indo-China)
  • Eulophia ecristata (Fernald) Ames (United States of America, Cuba)
  • Eulophia elegans Schltr. (Cameroon, Southwest Tanzania to Malawi)
  • Eulophia elisabethae (Linden & Rolfe) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia ensata Lindl. (Africa)
  • Eulophia ephippium (Rchb.f.) Butzin (Madagascar)
  • Eulophia epidendraea (J.Koenig ex Retz.) C.E.C.Fisch. (India, Sri Lanka)
  • Eulophia epiphanoides Schltr. (Southwest Tanzania)
  • Eulophia epiphytica P.J.Cribb, Du Puy & Bosser
  • Eulophia ericophila (Bosser) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia euantha Schltr. (Africa)
  • Eulophia euglossa (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. ex Bateman (West tropical Africa to Ethiopia)
  • Eulophia eulophioides (Schltr.) M.W.Chase, Kumar & Schuit.
  • Eulophia eustachya (Rchb.f.) Geerinck (Africa)
  • Eulophia exigua M.W.Chase, Kumar & Schuit.
  • Eulophia explanata Lindl. (Himalaya to India).
  • Eulophia eylesii Summerh. (Rwanda to southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia falcatiloba Szlach. & Olszewski (Central African Republic)
  • Eulophia falcigera (Rchb.f.) M.W.Chase, Kumar & Schuit.
  • Eulophia fernandeziana Geerinck (South Congo)
  • Eulophia filifolia Bosser & Morat (Madagascar)
  • Eulophia flabellata (Thouars) M.W.Chase, Kumar & Schuit.
  • Eulophia flava (Lindl.) Hook.f. (Himalaya to Indo-China)
  • Eulophia flavescens (Bosser & Morat) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia flavopurpurea (Rchb.f.) Rolfe (tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia foliosa (Lindl.) Bolus (Africa)
  • Eulophia friderici (Rchb.f.) A.V.Hall
  • Eulophia furcata (Bosser & Morat) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia galbana Ridl.
  • Eulophia galeoloides Kraenzl. (tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia gastrodioides Schltr. (southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia gonychila Schltr. (Tanzania to S. Trop. Africa)
  • Eulophia gracilis Lindl. (West tropical Africa to Angola)
  • Eulophia graminea Lindl. (tropical and subtropical Asia to Marianas, Guam).
  • Eulophia grandidieri H.Perrier (Madagascar)
  • Eulophia granitica (Rchb.f.) Cufod.
  • Eulophia guineensis Lindl. (Cape Verde, tropical Africa, Arabian Peninsula)
  • Eulophia hebdingiana (Guillaumin) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia herbacea Lindl. (Himalaya to Indo-China)
  • Eulophia hereroensis Schltr. (southern tropical and southern Africa)
  • Eulophia hermansiana M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia hians Spreng. (Africa)
  • Eulophia hologlossa Schltr. (East Madagascar)
  • Eulophia holubii Rolfe (Africa)
  • Eulophia horsfallii (Bateman) Summerh. (tropical and southern Africa)
  • Eulophia humbertii (H.Perrier) Butzin
  • Eulophia huttonii Rolfe (South Africa)
  • Eulophia ibityensis Schltr. (Southeast Madagascar)
  • Eulophia inyangensis Summerh.
  • Eulophia javanica J.J.Sm. (Western and Central Java)
  • Eulophia juncifolia Summerh. (West tropical Africa to Chad)
  • Eulophia kamarupa Sud.Chowdhury (Assam)
  • Eulophia katangensis (De Wild.) De Wild. (Tanzania to southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia kyimbilae Schltr. (Ethiopia to Botswana)
  • Eulophia lagaligo Metusala
  • Eulophia lamellata Lindl.
  • Eulophia lanceata H.Perrier
  • Eulophia laotica (Guillaumin) M.W.Chase, Kumar & Schuit.
  • Eulophia latifolia Rolfe
  • Eulophia latilabris Summerh. (Nigeria to Sudan and Botswana)
  • Eulophia leachii Greatrex ex A.V.Hall (southern tropical and southern Africa)
  • Eulophia lejolyana Geerinck (South Congo)
  • Eulophia lenbrassii Ormerod (Papua New Guinea)
  • Eulophia leonensis Rolfe (West tropical Africa to Uganda)
  • Eulophia leontoglossa Rchb.f. (South Africa)
  • Eulophia letouzeyana Geerinck
  • Eulophia lisowskii Szlach.
  • Eulophia litoralis Schltr. (Southern Africa)
  • Eulophia livingstoneana (Rchb.f.) Summerh. (Africa, Comoros)
  • Eulophia lonchophylla Rchb.f.
  • Eulophia longisepala Rendle (Burundi to southern tropical Africa, KwaZulu-Natal)
  • Eulophia lubbersiana De Wild. & Laurent
  • Eulophia macaulayae Summerh.
  • Eulophia mackinnonii Duthie (East Himalaya)
  • Eulophia macowanii Rolfe (East Cape Prov. to KwaZulu-Natal)
  • Eulophia macra Ridl. (Southeast and South Madagascar)
  • Eulophia macrantha Rolfe (southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia macrobulbon (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Hook.f. (Indo-China)
  • Eulophia maculata (Lindl.) Rchb.f.
  • Eulophia magnicristata Szlach. & Olszewski
  • Eulophia malangana (Rchb.f.) Summerh. (Tanzania to southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia mangenotiana Bosser & Veyret (North Madagascar)
  • Eulophia mannii (Rchb.f.) Hook.f. (Sikkim to Assam)
  • Eulophia massokoensis Schltr. (Tanzania to Zambia)
  • Eulophia mechowii (Rchb.f.) T.Durand & Schinz (Africa)
  • Eulophia megistophylla Rchb.f.
  • Eulophia meleagris Rchb.f. (East Cape Prov. to KwaZulu-Natal)
  • Eulophia micrantha Lindl.
  • Eulophia milnei Rchb.f. (Africa)
  • Eulophia monantha W.W.Sm. (Yunnan)
  • Eulophia monile Rchb.f. (tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia monotropis Schltr. (Tanzania to Zimbabwe)
  • Eulophia monticola Rolfe (southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia montis-elgonis Summerh. (Africa)
  • Eulophia moratii N.Hallé (Île des Pins of New Caledonia)
  • Eulophia mumbwaensis Summerh. (West Tanzania to southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia myanmarica Naive, K.Z.Hein & Kumar
  • Eulophia nervosa H.Perrier (Central Madagascar)
  • Eulophia nicobarica N.P.Balakr. & N.G.Nair (Nicobar Islands)
  • Eulophia norlindhii Summerh.
  • Eulophia nuda Lindl. (Asia, Western Pacific)
  • Eulophia nuttii Rolfe (Africa)
  • Eulophia nyasae Rendle (Tanzania to southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia obscura P.J.Cribb (Burundi to southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia obstipa P.J.Cribb & la Croix (Tanzania to Angola)
  • Eulophia obtusa (Lindl.) Hook.f. (Bangladesh, North India)
  • Eulophia ochreata Lindl. (India)
  • Eulophia ochyrae Szlach. & Olszewski
  • Eulophia odontoglossa Rchb.f. (Tropical and southern Africa)
  • Eulophia orthoplectra (Rchb.f.) Summerh. (tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia ovalis Lindl. (Kenya to southern Africa)
  • Eulophia palmicola H.Perrier
  • Eulophia pandurata Rolfe
  • Eulophia paradoxa Kraenzl.
  • Eulophia pardalina (Rchb.f.) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia parilamellata Butzin (Congo)
  • Eulophia parviflora (Lindl.) A.V.Hall (southern tropical and South Africa)
  • Eulophia parvilabris Lindl. (southern Africa)
  • Eulophia parvula (Rendle) Summerh. (Nigeria to Sudan and Zimbabwe)
  • Eulophia pauciflora Guillaumin (Indo-China)
  • Eulophia penduliflora Kraenzl. (tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia perrieri Schltr. (Northwest Madagascar)
  • Eulophia petersii (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. (Eritrea to southern Africa, Arabian Peninsula)
  • Eulophia petiolata Schltr.
  • Eulophia peyrotii (Bosser & Morat) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia × pholelana H.Kurze & O.Kurze (South Africa)
  • Eulophia picta (R.Br.) Ormerod
  • Eulophia pileata Ridl. (Central Madagascar)
  • Eulophia plantaginea (Thouars) Rolfe ex Hochr. (Mauritius, Madagascar, Réunion)
  • Eulophia platypetala Lindl. (South Cape Prov. of S. Africa)
  • Eulophia pocsii Eb.Fisch., Killmann, J.-P.Lebel & Delep. (Rwanda)
  • Eulophia poiformis Szlach.
  • Eulophia pottsii (P.M.Br. & DeAngelis) J.M.H.Shaw (florida)
  • Eulophia pratensis Lindl. (India)
  • Eulophia promensis Lindl. (Darjiling to Indo-China)
  • Eulophia protearum Rchb.f. (Angola)
  • Eulophia pulchella (Ridl.) Ormerod & Kurzweil
  • Eulophia pulchra (Thouars) Lindl. (Africa, Western Pacific)
  • Eulophia pyrophila (Rchb.f.) Summerh. (tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia quadriloba Schltr.
  • Eulophia ramifera Summerh. (West tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia ramosa Ridl. (West Madagascar)
  • Eulophia rara Schltr. (Africa)
  • Eulophia rauhii (Senghas) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia recurva (Roxb.) M.W.Chase, Kumar & Schuit.
  • Eulophia renschiana (Rchb.f.) T.Durand & Schinz
  • Eulophia reticulata Ridl. (Madagascar)
  • Eulophia rhodesiaca Schltr. (Tanzania to southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia richardsiae P.J.Cribb & la Croix (North Zambia)
  • Eulophia roempleriana (Rchb.f.) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia rolfeana Kraenzl. (South Congo to southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia roseovariegata (Senghas) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia rutenbergiana Kraenzl. (Madagascar)
  • Eulophia ruwenzoriensis Rendle (Africa, Soputh America)
  • Eulophia sabulosa Schltr. (Tanzania to southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia santapaui Panigrahi & Kataki
  • Eulophia saundersiana Rchb.f.
  • Eulophia saxicola P.J.Cribb & G.Will. (Zambia to Zimbabwe)
  • Eulophia schaijesii Geerinck (South Congo)
  • Eulophia schlechteri H.Perrier
  • Eulophia schweinfurthii Kraenzl. (Ethiopia to Northern Prov. of South Africa)
  • Eulophia sclerophylla Rchb.f.
  • Eulophia segawae Fukuy. (Taiwan)
  • Eulophia seleensis (De Wild.) Butzin (Burundi to southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia seychellarum Rolfe ex Summerh.
  • Eulophia siamensis Rolfe ex Downie (Thailand)
  • Eulophia sooi Chun & Tang ex S.C.Chen (Guangxi)
  • Eulophia sordida Kraenzl. (West tropical Africa to Cameroon)
  • Eulophia spathulifera H.Perrier
  • Eulophia speciosa (R.Br.) Bolus (Ethiopia to South Africa, Southwest Arabian Peninsula)
  • Eulophia splendida (Koop. & P.J.Cribb) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia stachyodes Rchb.f. (Nigeria to Ethiopia and Mozambique)
  • Eulophia stenopetala Lindl. (Central Bhutan)
  • Eulophia stenoplectra Summerh. (Ghana, South Sudan, Uganda)
  • Eulophia streptopetala Lindl. (Eritrea to South Africa, Southwest Arabian Peninsula)
  • Eulophia stricta Rolfe (Philippines to Sulawesi)
  • Eulophia subsaprophytica Schltr. (Tanzania to southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia subulata Rendle (Africa)
  • Eulophia suzannae Geerinck (Congo)
  • Eulophia sylviae Geerinck (South Congo)
  • Eulophia tabularis (L.f.) Bolus (Africa)
  • Eulophia taitensis Pfennig & P.J.Cribb (East tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia taiwanensis Hayata (Southeast Taiwan)
  • Eulophia tanganyikensis Rolfe (Burundi to Zimbabwe)
  • Eulophia tenella Rchb.f. (southern tropical and South Africa)
  • Eulophia thollonii Szlach. & Olszewski
  • Eulophia thomsonii Rolfe (Africa)
  • Eulophia tisserantii Szlach. & Olszewski
  • Eulophia tricristata Schltr. (South Congo to Angola)
  • Eulophia trilamellata De Wild. (Africa)
  • Eulophia tristis (L.f.) Spreng.
  • Eulophia tuberculata Bolus (Tanzania to southern Africa)
  • Eulophia ugandae Rolfe
  • Eulophia ukingensis Schltr. (Tanzania)
  • Eulophia ustulata (Bolus) Bolus
  • Eulophia venosa (F.Muell.) Rchb.f. ex Benth. (Maluku to Queensland)
  • Eulophia venulosa Rchb.f. (Tanzania to southern tropical Africa)
  • Eulophia versicolor Frapp. ex Cordem.
  • Eulophia vinosa McMurtry & G.McDonald (Africa)
  • Eulophia walleri (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. (Africa)
  • Eulophia welwitschii (Rchb.f.) Rolfe (Africa)
  • Eulophia wendlandiana Kraenzl. (Madagascar)
  • Eulophia zanzibarica (Summerh.) M.W.Chase & Schuit.
  • Eulophia zeyheriana Sond. (South Africa)
  • Eulophia zollingeri (Rchb.f.) J.J.Sm. (tropical and subtropical Asia to Queensland)


Transferred to Orthochilus

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 suggested the genus Eulophia was paraphyletic unless a clade containing Orthochilus was recognized and 34 species and one subspecies were transferred to the resurrected genus Orthochilus, which included many Eulophia and all Pteroglossaspis taxa.[2] (As of December 2023), the transfer was not recognized by Plants of the World Online and other sources. The species transferred in the 2014 study are listed below,[2] with their names in Eulophia.

  • Orthochilus abyssinicus, syn. of Eulophia abyssinica
  • Orthochilus aculeatus, syn. of Eulophia aculeata
  • Orthochilus adenoglossus, syn. of Eulophia adenoglossa
  • Orthochilus albobrunneus, syn. of Eulophia albobrunnea
  • Orthochilus aurantiacus, syn. of Eulophia aurantiaca
  • Orthochilus carsonii, syn. of Eulophia carsonii
  • Orthochilus chloranthus, syn. of Eulophia chlorantha
  • Orthochilus clandestinus, syn. of Eulophia clandestina
  • Orthochilus corymbosus, syn. of Eulophia corymbosa
  • Orthochilus distans, syn. of Eulophia distans
  • Orthochilus ecristatus, syn. of Eulophia ecristata
  • Orthochilus ensatus, syn. of Eulophia ensata
  • Orthochilus euanthus, syn. of Eulophia euantha
  • Orthochilus eustachyus, syn. of Eulophia eustachya
  • Orthochilus foliosus, syn. of Eulophia foliosa
  • Orthochilus holubii, syn. of Eulophia holubii
  • Orthochilus leontoglossus, syn. of Eulophia leontoglossa
  • Orthochilus litoralis, syn. of Eulophia litoralis
  • Orthochilus mechowii, syn. of Eulophia mechowii
  • Orthochilus milnei, syn. of Eulophia milnei
  • Orthochilus montis-elgonis, syn. of Eulophia montis-elgonis
  • Orthochilus nuttii, syn. of Eulophia nuttii
  • Orthochilus odontoglossus, syn. of Eulophia odontoglossa
  • Orthochilus pottsii, syn. of Pteroglossaspis pittsii
  • Orthochilus rarus, syn. of Eulophia rara
  • Orthochilus rutenbergianus, syn. of Eulophia rutenbergiana
  • Orthochilus ruwenzoriensis, syn. of Eulophia ruwenzoriensis
  • Orthochilus subulatus, syn. of Eulophia subulata
  • Orthochilus tabularis, syn. of Eulophia tabularis
  • Orthochilus thomsonii, syn. of Eulophia thomsonii
  • Orthochilus trilamellatus, syn. of Eulophia trilamellata
  • Orthochilus vinosus, syn. of Eulophia vinosa
  • Orthochilus walleri, syn. of Eulophia walleri
  • Orthochilus welwitschii, syn. of Eulophia welwitschii


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