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Pointed corduroy orchid

Eulophia venosa

Pointed corduroy orchid
Photo: I.D. Cowie, CC BY 4.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Native range
Maluku to Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Eulophia venosa, commonly known as the pointed corduroy orchid, is a plant in the orchid family and is native to India, parts of Southeast Asia as well as New Guinea and northern Australia. It is a deciduous, terrestrial orchid with one large and one small leaf and between six and twenty pale green or yellowish flowers with purple markings. It grows in rainforest and grassy forests.

Where it grows

Eulophia venosa grows in woodland, grassy forest and on the edge of rainforests. It is variously reported as occurring in northern Queensland, the Northern Territory, New Guinea, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Taiwan.

Other Eulophia plants

Wild coco · Eulophia andamanensis · Green corduroy orchid · Sourveld Harlequin · Eulophia dabia · Eulophia dentata · Giant orchid · Sword Harlequin · Eulophia euglossa · Eulophia gracilis · Chinese Crown Orchid · Eulophia guineensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eulophia venosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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