Noid eulophia
 

I got a cheap Eulophia sp. From White river in Mpumalanga. The leaves werent like normal eulophia, and said to have yellow flowers, will post a pjc of the leaves when the shoot opens

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Possible id of angolensis, amyone have a phkto of leaves?

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Growing in the grassland with lots of water next tk a river

Do you have access to A Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Region, Elsa Pooley, Natal Flora Publications Trust, 1998? If you don't, you need to get it. It covers thousands of plants from the summer-rainfall area of South Africa, features thousands of color photos, and is organized by flower color. There is a comprehensive index and an index of plant names in indigenous languages. I paid US $40 about 20 years ago.

Bold words indicate diagnostic differences from similar species.

p 242: E. angolensis Robust, up to 2 m, in small clumps or large colonies. In marshy grassland, from coast to inland areas, E Cape (N Transkei) to Trop Afr. Leaves: +/- 900 x 50 mm, pleated, stiff, erect. Flowers: Inflorescence +/- 300 mm; 4-10 flowers, bright lemon yellow, sometimes tinged purplish brown or olive, sepals large, blunt tipped, +/- 26 mm, spur poorly developed, [flowering] Oct-Apr, sweetly scented. General: Used as a love charm. Easily grown, dormant in winter.

She lists a lot of other yellow-flowered Eulophia spp, many of which have overlapping distributions.

Thank you! Will try to get it

Please keep us informed about Eulophias, and your other African orchids!

Will do, it is growing very big!

We have the Orchids of South Africa - A field guide by Johnson and Bytebier (published this year).
There are three pictures of angolensis, flowers and one field covered in them (picture tagged White River, January 2010), and the description of leaves is 'pleated, stiffly erect, fully developed at flowering time, up to 900 x 50mm.'