Flattened Eulophia is as a small sized, warm growing
orchid growing on trees, with an ovoid, annulated pseudobulb carrying
immature at flowering, lanceshaped becoming broadly
elliptic-lanceshaped, tapering, pleated, 7 veined leaves. Leaves are
tapering below into the stalked. The plant blooms in the spring on a
50-65 cm long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with 2, loose, basal
sheaths and shorter than the ovary floral bracts. Flattened Eulophia is
found in the western Himalayas, India and Nepal at elevations around
850-900 m.
Medicinal uses: Pseudobulb of Flattened
Eulophia, crushed with pepper and garlic, is applied in wounds and is
used in impotence and other sexual disorders.
Identification credit: Amber Srivastava
Photographed in Hathinala, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh.
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