Eulophia ovalis var. bainesii flower

In this Eulophia ovalis var. bainesii flower the lateral petals lean forward over the flower centre, their upper parts flanking the back half of the lip. These petals and the central petal, the lip below, are cream coloured, paler than the three sepals that spread widely behind them. There are faintly scattered, blackish markings on the inner sepal surfaces, mainly along some nearly invisible veins on the dull buff blades.

The brightest parts of the flower are the erect, yellow papillae appearing as worm-like growths arranged in a central band on the lip’s upper surface. The front part of the angled down lip is about triangular, slightly incurved along its margins. The margins of the back part of the lip's main lobe narrow slightly and are somewhat ragged. The two lateral lip lobes are erect beside the column.

The column is the central floral part hard to discern, where the reproductive components, the anther and the stigma are fused together. There is a rostellum, a tongue-like structure separating the male and female floral parts. The viscidium is a sticky pad at the top of the column that allows the pollinia, the clusters of pollen grains enclosed in an anther sac to attach to the visiting insect, the pollinator. This delivery partner is then supposed, in the bigger scheme of things, to transport this male floral component to the stigma of a different flower, unwittingly in its manoeuvring around the eulophia's flowers. 

There are a few longitudinal lines appearing as if pencilled on the lip's lateral parts, flanking the platoon of papillae (Manning, 2009; Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist).