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Eulophia ugandae Rolfe

Orchidaceae · Ghana, Ivory Coast +5

No habitat climate
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Summary

Oeceoclades ugandae is a terrestrial orchid species in the genus Oeceoclades that is native to parts of tropical Africa, including west tropical Africa (Ghana and Ivory Coast), west-central tropical Africa (Gulf of Guinea islands and the Democratic Republic of the Congo), northeast tropical Africa (Ethiopia), and east tropical Africa (Kenya and Uganda). It was first described by the British botanist Robert Allen Rolfe in 1913 as Eulophia ugandae and later transferred to the genus Oeceoclades in 1976 when Leslie Andrew Garay and Peter Taylor resurrected and revised that genus. The English botanist V.S. Summerhayes treated this species as a synonym of O. latifolia, but Garay and Taylor noted that while the two species share a superficial resemblance in the appearance of the labellum, they are distinct in vegetative morphology. The labellum of O. ugandae also has two swellings or protuberances between the lateral and midlobes, a feature that O. latifolia lacks.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Oeceoclades ugandae", CC BY-SA 4.0; its title is one of this species' older names (GBIF Backbone), which is the proof that the article is this species'.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 2 of the 3 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.
NativeGhana, Ivory Coast, Congo, Zaïre, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda · 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“pseudobulbous geophyte” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 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

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

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 maculata Eulophia maculata African Spotted Orchid Photo: CC BY, Liliana Ramírez-FreireEulophia 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, Vinayaraj all 18 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Oeceoclades ugandae. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
Rolfe
Native to
Ghana, Ivory Coast, Congo +4
Wild records
3 in range · 2 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
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia redirects Eulophia ugandae to Oeceoclades ugandae, an older name of this species (Oeceoclades ugandae)
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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 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 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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