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Eulophia alta

Eulophia alta (L.) Fawc. & Rendle  
Family: Orchidaceae
Wild Coco
[Bletia alta (L.) Hitchc., moreCypripedium epidendricum Vell., Cyrtopera vellosiana Barb. Rodr., Cyrtopera woodfordii (Sims) Lindl., Cyrtopera woodfordii var. pachystelida Rchb. f., Cyrtopodium woordfordii Sims, Dendrobium longifolium Kunth, Eulophia longifolia (Kunth) Schltr., Eulophia woodfordii (Sims) Rolfe, Govenia barbata Poepp. & Endl., Limodorum altum L., Platypus papilliferus]
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Gustavo A. Romero-González in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Plants 70-170 cm. Leaves linear-elliptic to narrowly ovate, 20-120 × 3-11 cm, apex acuminate. Inflorescences erect, to 1 m; bracts narrowly ovate to filiform, 1-3 cm. Flowers many, 1.5-2.5 cm wide; sepals light green, very narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, apex acuminate to apiculate; lateral sepals slightly oblique, adnate to column foot; petals spreading, green or green with pink overflush, 13 × 7 mm, broader than sepals; lip red-maroon, concave, saccate, 11-17 × 18-28 mm, slightly to conspicuously 3-lobed, middle lobe apically obtuse, margins undulate, lateral lobes partially enclosing column; disc with erect lamellae; column 7-10 mm. Capsules ellipsoid, to 6 cm.

Flowering summer--fall. Moist sand and rich soils, in shaded to sunny habitats, swamps, pastures, and roadside ditches; 10--200[--2000] m; Fla., Ga.; Mexico; West Indies; Central America; South America; tropical Africa.
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