Eulophia subsaprophytica Schlechter (1915: 576)

Bytebier, Benny, 2025, New and noteworthy records to the Angolan orchid flora revealed by the littleknown watercolours of Helen Faulkner (1888 - 1979), Phytotaxa 710 (1), pp. 79-90 : 85

Eulophia subsaprophytica Schlechter (1915: 576)

( Fig. 5A )

Painting number 3 in notebook 1 is Eulophia subsaprophytica . This species was described based on a specimen collected by Stolz (Stolz 1807) from Mulinda Forest (Rungwe District, Mbeya Region) in Tanzania. Although widespread and distributed over neighbouring countries such as the DR Congo, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, it has not been recorded from Angola before.

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FIGURE 5. New Angola country records based on Faulkner’s drawings. A. Drawing 3 on the right, Eulophia subsaprophytica (with drawing 2 on the left Eulophia mumbwaensis). B. Drawing 6, Orthochilus thomsonii. C. Drawing 24, Habenaria calvilabris. D. Drawing 21, Habenaria gonatosiphon. Reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.