Eulophia gramineaLindl.

WFO wfo-0000959912 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Eulophia graminea, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. a Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 202611100
Eulophia graminea, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200411002
Eulophia graminea, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. c Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191777125
Eulophia graminea, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. d Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188497293
Eulophia graminea, photographed by Ainsley
fig. e Ainsley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172074910
Eulophia graminea, photographed by natalie
fig. f natalie, CC0 1.0 / obs. 152900012
Eulophia graminea, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. g Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152163376
Eulophia graminea, photographed by Jade Fortnash
fig. h Jade Fortnash, CC0 1.0 / obs. 146042997

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Eulophia graminea is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Marianas China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosMalayaMyanmarNepalPakistanPhilippinesSri LankaSumateraThailandVietnamWest Himalaya Nansei-shotoAndaman Is.Nicobar Is.Marianas
Native distribution of Eulophia graminea, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Nicobar Is. NCB
Pakistan PAK
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Marianas MRN PACIFIC

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.

Flowering 947 in flower of 1,093 examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Eulophia graminea observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 947 of 1,093 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,006 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 7.2 °C 14.1 °C 22.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.8 °C 30.7 °C 33.7 °C
Annual rainfall 1,233 mm 1,469 mm 2,738 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 100 mm 183 mm 501 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 2,006 research-grade observations of Eulophia graminea that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 13 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 decipiens Kurz
  • Eulophia gusukumai Masam.
  • Eulophia inconspicua Griff.
  • Eulophia ramosa Hayata
  • Eulophia sinensis Miq.
  • Eulophia ucbii Malhotra & Balodi
  • Eulophia venusta Schltr.
  • Graphorchis decipiens (Kurz) Kuntze
  • Graphorchis graminea (Lindl.) Kuntze
  • Graphorchis inconspicua (Griff.) Kuntze
  • Graphorkis decipiens (Kurz) Kuntze
  • Graphorkis graminea (Lindl.) Kuntze
  • Graphorkis inconspicua (Griff.) Kuntze

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.