Eulophia streptopetala

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Eulophia streptopetala, photographed by Aaliyah Motala — fig. b Aaliyah Motala, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 109833296

Eulophia streptopetala, photographed by Mahomed Desai — fig. c Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61219698

Eulophia streptopetala, photographed by Jimmy Whatmore — fig. d Jimmy Whatmore, CC0 1.0 / obs. 39592821

Eulophia streptopetala, photographed by Robert Taylor — fig. e Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56868236

Eulophia streptopetala, photographed by Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan — fig. f Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 109230601

Eulophia streptopetala, photographed by Nicola van Berkel — fig. h Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15220839

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Native distribution of Eulophia streptopetala, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Angola	ANG	AFRICA
Burundi	BUR
Cape Provinces	CPP
DR Congo	ZAI
Eritrea	ERI
Eswatini	SWZ
Ethiopia	ETH
Kenya	KEN
KwaZulu-Natal	NAT
Malawi	MLW
Mozambique	MOZ
Namibia	NAM
Northern Provinces	TVL
Rwanda	RWA
Sudan-South Sudan	SUD
Tanzania	TAN
Uganda	UGA
Zambia	ZAM
Zimbabwe	ZIM
Yemen	YEM	ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 68 in flower of 83 examined

83%

20%

78%

96%

100%

Proportion of examined Eulophia streptopetala in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	10	12	83%	55% to 95%
Feb	1	2	too few examined
Mar	1	5	20%	4% to 62%
Apr	1	2	too few examined
May	0	1	too few examined
Jun	0	0	too few examined
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	1	2	too few examined
Oct	14	18	78%	55% to 91%
Nov	22	23	96%	79% to 99%
Dec	18	18	100%	82% to 100%

Peak flowering in Dec. Each bar is the share of Eulophia streptopetala 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. 68 of 83 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 389 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	3.1 °C	6.9 °C	13.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	22.3 °C	26.1 °C	28.7 °C
Annual rainfall	586 mm	877 mm	1,512 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	9 mm	48 mm	142 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 389 research-grade observations of Eulophia streptopetala 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 38 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 crepidata Butzin
Eulophia grantii (Rchb.f.) Summerh.
Eulophia krebsii (Rchb.f.) Bolus
Eulophia krebsii var. purpurata (Ridl.) Bolus
Eulophia manganjensis Rolfe
Eulophia paivaeana (Rchb.f.) Summerh.
Eulophia paivaeana subsp. borealis Summerh.
Eulophia rueppelii (Rchb.f.) Summerh.
Eulophia stenophylla Summerh.
Eulophia stuhlmannii (Kraenzl.) Butzin
Hypodematium abyssinicum A.Rich.
Lissochilus abyssinicus (A.Rich.) T.Durand & Schinz
Lissochilus arabicus Lindl.
Lissochilus carsonii Rolfe
Lissochilus erythraeae Rolfe
Lissochilus graefei Kraenzl.
Lissochilus graeferi Kraenzl.
Lissochilus graniticus Schweinf.
Lissochilus grantii Rchb.f.
Lissochilus kirkii Rolfe
Lissochilus krebsii Rchb.f.
Lissochilus krebsii var. purpuratus Ridl.
Lissochilus micranthus Kraenzl.
Lissochilus morrumbalaensis De Wild.

and 14 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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.