Eulophia speciosa flower

The flower of Eulophia speciosa is dominated by the pair of yellow lateral petals and the lip. The small green sepals are insignificant in this species, unlike Eulophia flowers in general.

The two spreading petals may be 2 cm long, 1,5 cm wide, angled up obliquely above the flower centre. They are well rounded, having obtusely pointed tips.

The long lip is concave in the photo but for its bulging crest consisting of broad fleshy ridges. The lip in picture is yellow with a tiny white marking at its base where dark red or purple lines begin, spreading forward about halfway to the tip, along the flanks of the lip crest. Longitudinal veins, parallel across the lip surface, continue to its tip along the red lines and elsewhere.

The column is erect and conspicuous in the flower centre, sometimes pale green in colour.

A small spur (1 mm to 3 mm long), is present below the back end of the lip. It is conical to flattish in shape and bluntly pointed. The spur is shown in another photo of this Album (Liltved and Johnson, 2012; Pooley, 1988; Onderstall, 1984).