Eulophia bouliawongo(Rchb.f.) J.Raynal

WFO wfo-0000959717 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Eulophia bouliawongo, photographed by Lucy Keith-Diagne
fig. a Lucy Keith-Diagne, CC BY 4.0 / 2008-11-13 / obs. 154622523
Eulophia bouliawongo, photographed by Lucy Keith-Diagne
fig. b Lucy Keith-Diagne, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107152094
Eulophia bouliawongo, photographed by Lucy Keith-Diagne
fig. c Lucy Keith-Diagne, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107151065

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Eulophia bouliawongo is native: Angola, Cameroon, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Is., Nigeria AngolaCameroonCongoDR CongoEquatorial GuineaGabonGulf of Guinea Is.Nigeria
Native distribution of Eulophia bouliawongo, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Angola ANG AFRICA
Cameroon CMN
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Equatorial Guinea EQG
Gabon GAB
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Nigeria NGA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Eulophia gigantea (Welw. ex Rchb.f.) N.E.Br.
  • Eulophia oedoplectron Summerh.
  • Galeandra bouliawongo Rchb.f.
  • Lissochilus bouliawongo (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f.
  • Lissochilus bouliawongo Rchb.f.
  • Lissochilus elatus Rolfe
  • Lissochilus giganteus Welw. ex Rchb.f.
  • Lissochilus macranthus Lindl.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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