A large terrestrial orchid with a long flowering spike ; up to 3 m tall . Stems pseudobulbs , mostly above ground , 3-24 x to 7 cm , ovoid to cylindrical or narrowly ellipsoid , sulcate , covered with grey caducous sheaths , 2-3-leaved towards apex , drying yellow to orange . Leaves thick , fleshy , spreading or erect , keeled , mainly in a basal rosette , grey-green , lance-shaped , acute tip , up to 55 x 1-5 cm long with minutely serrated margins . Inflorescences branched or rarely simple , laxly many-flowered , up to 2 m long . Flowers fragrant , green with purple/brown markings ; sepals green flushed purplish , with purple veins , narrowly oblanceolate or linear ; petals strongly reflexed , at intervals along the erect spike . Fruit capsule , purple/green , ellipsoid , recurved . Seeds tiny , dust-like .
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Rare & Threatened (RT) - Near Threatened (NT) - National Assessment
Not Common
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Orchis viridis Forssk. Non Crantz Stirp
Galenadra petersii Rchb.f.
Eulophia schimperana A. Rich.
Eulophia baginsensis Rchb.f.
Eulophia coleae Rolfe
Eulophia phiiipsiae Rolfe
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Peter's Eulophia
Miller & Morris (1988) wrote that: "Local expertise does not differentiate between the two species, E. guineensis and E. petersii, the medicinal virtues of both being regarded as similar. However, E. petersii was considered to be more effective, and was usually preferred where there was a choice. The part used in local medicine was the bulbous part visible above the ground, and this was considered to be at its most potent medicinally when the plant was not in flower. The swollen stem was dug up, and the broken lower end was held over the fire until it blackened and the juice began to flow. Then the part exuding juice was rubbed over the skin of someone suffering from a variety of cutaneous conditions, from scabies [J: fedfed], ringworm and the circular weeping sores that occur commonly on the limbs and occasionally on the face (and which are called [J: miseb,
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