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Eulophia maculata; photograph Liliana Ramírez-Freire, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF CC BYLiliana Ramírez-Freire, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF

Eulophia maculata (Lindl.) Rchb.f.

African Spotted Orchid; Monk Orchid

Orchidaceae · Benin, Burkina +29

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Eulophia maculata, photograph Yolanda M. Leon, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIFEulophia maculata, photograph Mario Cohn-Haft, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFEulophia maculata, photograph Mario Cohn-Haft, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFEulophia maculata, photograph Mario Cohn-Haft, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFEulophia maculata, photograph Mario Cohn-Haft, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFEulophia maculata, photograph Mario Cohn-Haft, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF 24 photographs ›

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 10 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 10 of the 10 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBenin, Burkina, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Is., Zaïre, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, KwaZulu-Natal, Comoros, Mauritius, Madagascar, Réunion · introduced: Florida, Mexico Southeast, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Bahamas, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is., French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil North, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Paraguay · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“epiphyte” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 10 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 9 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 333 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 10 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: Yolanda M. Leon, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIF; Mario Cohn-Haft, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (5).

Other Eulophia 17 in the reference

Eulophia alta Eulophia alta Wild coco Photo: CC0, author not statedEulophia andamanensis Eulophia andamanensis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, payalmEulophia calcarata Eulophia calcarata Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Michael A. AlcornEulophia decaryana Eulophia decaryana Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, amantedarmaninEulophia euglossa Eulophia euglossa Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Sandra Keller Eulophia falcigera Orchidaceae Eulophia graminea Eulophia graminea Chinese Crown Orchid Photo: CC BY, James HardeeEulophia guineensis Eulophia guineensis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Skjold SøndergaardEulophia pardalina Eulophia pardalina Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Marcos Antonio CampacciEulophia petersii Eulophia petersii Desert Orchid Photo: CC BY, Benjamin FredlundEulophia picta Eulophia picta Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, VinayarajEulophia pulchra Eulophia pulchra Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, naturalistchu all 18 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Aerobion maculatum; Angraecum maculatum; Angraecum monophyllum; Epidendrum connivens; Eulophia ledienii and 23 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
(Lindl.) Rchb.f.
Native to
Benin, Burkina, Ghana +28
Wild records
10 in range · 9 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 6 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (3 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 3 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2210 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 67 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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