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Orchid Species: Lissochilus amabilis

Kew currently accepted name is Eulophia cucullata

Lissochilus amabilis is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1924. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Eulophia cucullata.
Genus
Lissochilus (Liss.)
Grex
amabilis
Parents
Species
Author
Schltr.
Year
1924
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ORIGIN: Found in Benin, Burkino, Gambai, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Rwanda, Zaire, Chad, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Natal and Madagascar in woodlands, scrub, rough grasslands and drier marshes and on the edges of ant hills in short grass swamps at elevations of 200 to 2300 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Large to giant sized, hot to cold growing, slender terrestrial with underground, irregularly shaped and in a chain pseudobulbs giving rise to the 3 to 4, plicate, erect, linear leaves after or with the 2 to 9 flowered inflorescence carrying showy flowers occurring in the spring and summer.

FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Eulophia Euph cucullata 1840 (Afzel. ex Sw.) Steud.
Add+ Eulophia Euph arenaria 1898 (Lindl.) Bolus
Add+ Eulophia Euph dilecta 1900 (Rchb.f.) Schltr.
Add+ Eulophia Euph kondensis 1975 Butzin
Add+ Eulophia Euph monteiroi 1975 (Rolfe) Butzin
Add+ Eulophia Euph stylites 1964 (Rchb.f.) A.D.Hawkes
Add+ Lissochilus Liss arenarius 1863 Lindl.
Add+ Lissochilus Liss dilectus 1878 Rchb.f.
Add+ Lissochilus Liss euanthus 1915 Schltr.
Add+ Lissochilus Liss kassnerianus 1914 Kraenzl.
Add+ Lissochilus Liss monteiroi 1897 Rolfe in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Lissochilus Liss roscheri 1878 Rchb.f.
Add+ Lissochilus Liss stylites 1878 Rchb.f.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Euph. cucullata 'Natal' (1992)
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