Eulophia alta

Wild coco
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Cymbidieae
Subtribe: Cyrtopodiinae
Alliance: Eulophia
Genus: Eulophia
Species: E. alta
Binomial name
Eulophia alta
(L.) Fawc. & Rendle
Synonyms[1]
  • Limodorum altum L.
  • Bletia alta (L.) Hitchc.
  • Cypripedium epidendricum Vell.
  • Cyrtopera alta (L.) Stehlé
  • Cyrtopera amazonica Barb.Rodr.
  • Cyrtopera longifolia (Kunth) Rchb.f.
  • Cyrtopera longifolia var. amazonica (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn.
  • Cyrtopera longifolia var. pachystelidia Rchb.f.
  • Cyrtopera vellosiana Barb.Rodr.
  • Cyrtopera woodfordii Sims
  • Cyrtopodium woodfordii Sims
  • Dendrobium longifolium Kunth
  • Eulophia alta f. flavescens (Schltr.) F. Barros
  • Eulophia alta f. pallida P.M.Br.
  • Eulophia alta f. pelchatii P.M.Br.
  • Eulophia alta var. alba L.C. Menezes
  • Eulophia alta var. pachystelidia (Rchb.f.) G.A. Romero
  • Eulophia longifolia (Kunth) Schltr.
  • Eulophia longifolia var. amazonica (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn.
  • Eulophia longifolia var. flavescens Schltr.
  • Eulophia woodfordii (Sims) Rolfe
  • Lissochilus amazonicus Barb.Rodr.
  • Maxillaria longifolia (Kunth) Lindl.
  • Paphiopedilum epidendricum (Vell.) Pfitzer
  • Platypus altus (L.) Small
  • Platypus papilliferus Small
  • Xylobium longifolium (Kunth) Lindl. ex Spreng.

Eulophia alta is a species of orchid, known as the wild coco. It is widespread across tropical and subtropical parts of Africa, South America, Central America, Mexico and the West Indies, as well as the southeastern United States (states of Georgia and Florida).[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Cribb, P. J. 1989. Eulophia. In: W. B. Turrill et al., eds. 1952+. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 152+ vols. London and Rotterdam. Orchidaceae, part 3, pp. 422–480.
  3. ↑ Flora of North America v 26 p 640, Eulophia alta (Linnaeus) Fawcett & Rendle, Fl. Jamaica. 1: 112. 1910.
  4. ↑ Hammel, B.E. & al. (2003). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica 3: 1-884. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  5. ↑ Demissew, S., Cribb, P. & Rasmussen, F. (2004). Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids: 1-300. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  6. ↑ Toscano de Brito, A.L.V. & Cribb, P. (2006). Orquídeas da Chapada Diamantina: 1-400. Nova Fronteira, Brazil.
  7. ↑ da Rocha Fiuza de Melo, M.M. & al. (eds.) (2007). Flora Fanerogâmica da Ilha do Cardoso 12: 1-289. Instituto de Botânica, São Paulo, Brasil.
  8. ↑ Szlachetko, D. & Kowalkoska, A. (2007). Contributions to the orchid flora of Guinea, West Africa. Polish Botanical Studies 25: 1-259.
  9. ↑ Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  10. ↑ Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  11. ↑ Pansarin, E.R. & Pansarin, L.M. (2008). A família Orchidaceae na Serra do Japi, São Paulo, Brasil. Rodriguésia; Revista do Instituto de Biologia Vegetal, Jardim Botânico e Estaçao Biologica do Itatiaya 59: 87-98.
  12. ↑ Szlachetko, D.L. (2008). Orchidaceae of Ivory Coast. Ruizia 20: 1-396.
  13. ↑ Schinini, A. (2010). Orquídeas nativas del Paraguay. Rojasiana 9: 1-316.
  14. ↑ Ferreira, A.W.C., Lima, M.I.S. & Pansarin, E.R. (2010). Orchidaceae na região central de São Paulo, Brasil. Rodriguésia; Revista do Instituto de Biologia Vegetal, Jardim Botânico e Estaçao Biologica do Itatiaya 61: 243-259.
  15. ↑ Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  16. ↑ Carnevali F., G., J. L. Tapia-Muñoz, R. Jiménez-Machorro, L. Sánchez-Saldaña, L. Ibarra-González, I. M. Ramírez & M. P. Gómez. 2001. Notes on the flora of the Yucatan Peninsula II: a synopsis of the orchid flora of the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula and a tentative checklist of the Orchidaceae of the Yucatan Peninsula biotic province. Harvard Papers in Botany 5(2): 383–466.

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