Eulophia alta
(L.) Fawc. & Rendle · speciesAt a glance
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Eulophia alta is a species of orchid, known as the wild coco. It is widespread across tropical and subtropical parts of Africa, South America, Central America, Mexico and the West Indies, as well as the southeastern United States (states of Georgia and Florida).Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesCribb, P. J. 1989. Eulophia. In: W. B. Turrill et al., eds. 1952+. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 152+ vols. London and Rotterdam. Orchidaceae, part 3, pp. 422–480.Flora of North America v 26 p 640, Eulophia alta (Linnaeus) Fawcett & Rendle, Fl. Jamaica. 1: 112. 1910.Hammel, B.E. & al. (2003). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica 3: 1-884. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.Demissew, S., Cribb, P. & Rasmussen, F. (2004). Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids: 1-300. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Toscano de Brito, A.L.V. & Cribb, P. (2006). Orquídeas da Chapada Diamantina: 1-400. Nova Fronteira, Brazil.da Rocha Fiuza de Melo, M.M. & al. (eds.) (2007). Flora Fanerogâmica da Ilha do Cardoso 12: 1-289. Instituto de Botânica, São Paulo, Brasil.Szlachetko, D. & Kowalkoska, A. (2007). Contributions to the orchid flora of Guinea, West Africa. Polish Botanical Studies 25: 1-259.Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.Pansarin, E.R. & Pansarin, L.M. (2008). A família Orchidaceae na Serra do Japi, São Paulo, Brasil. Rodriguésia; Revista do Instituto de Biologia Vegetal, Jardim Botânico e Estaçao Biologica do Itatiaya 59: 87-98.Szlachetko, D.L. (2008). Orchidaceae of Ivory Coast. Ruizia 20: 1-396.Schinini, A. (2010). Orquídeas nativas del Paraguay. Rojasiana 9: 1-316.Ferreira, A.W.C., Lima, M.I.S. & Pansarin, E.R. (2010). Orchidaceae na região central de São Paulo, Brasil. Rodriguésia; Revista do Instituto de Biologia Vegetal, Jardim Botânico e Estaçao Biologica do Itatiaya 61: 243-259.Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.Carnevali F., G., J. L. Tapia-Muñoz, R. Jiménez-Machorro, L. Sánchez-Saldaña, L. Ibarra-González, I. M. Ramírez & M. P. Gómez. 2001. Notes on the flora of the Yucatan Peninsula II: a synopsis of the orchid flora of the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula and a tentative checklist of the Orchidaceae of the Yucatan Peninsula biotic province. Harvard Papers in Botany 5(2): 383–466.
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Size & morphology1
Life cycle & reproduction4
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment9
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Eulophia alta has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type1 154 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions47 of 111 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Bronx, US | 60 |
| Université de Bordeauxlocation not on record | 40 |
| Saint Louis, US | 31 |
| Tampa, US | 27 |
| Blumenau, BR | 27 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 27 |
| Chicago, US | 25 |
| Mexico City, MX | 18 |
| South Kensington, GB | 18 |
| Durango, MX | 17 |
| St. Augustine, TT | 15 |
| UnBlocation not on record | 13 |
| INMAlocation not on record | 13 |
| UFMGlocation not on record | 12 |
| JBRJlocation not on record | 12 |
| Miami, US | 11 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 11 |
| Brasília, BR | 11 |
| Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record | 8 |
| Bogotá, D.C., CO | 6 |
| UFMSlocation not on record | 5 |
| Laboratorio de Ictiologialocation not on record | 5 |
| Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ)location not on record | 5 |
| Stockholm, SE | 5 |
| National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record | 5 |
| Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas - SINCHIlocation not on record | 5 |
| Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI)location not on record | 4 |
| Universidad Nacional de Colombialocation not on record | 4 |
| IPA/SPlocation not on record | 4 |
| Kew, GB | 4 |
| Philadelphia, US | 4 |
| Campo Grande, BR | 4 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Aarhus, DK | 3 |
| Xiamen, CN | 3 |
| Paris, FR | 3 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 3 |
| Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldilocation not on record | 3 |
| UFABClocation not on record | 3 |
| UNESClocation not on record | 3 |
| UNESP, Campus São José Rio Prêtolocation not on record | 2 |
| UNICAMPlocation not on record | 2 |
| San Francisco, US | 2 |
| IECOSlocation not on record | 2 |
| Centro de Pesquisas Agropecuarias do Tropico Umidolocation not on record | 2 |
| Campo Mourão, BR | 2 |
| Ural Federal University "B. N. Yeltsin"location not on record | 2 |
| UFSClocation not on record | 2 |
| Ivano-Frankivsk, UA | 2 |
| Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)location not on record | 2 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 2 |
| ESALQlocation not on record | 2 |
| Universidade de São Paulolocation not on record | 2 |
| UEMAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Burlington, US | 2 |
| Feira de Santana, BR | 2 |
| Uberlândia, BR | 2 |
| Plocation not on record | 2 |
| San José, CR | 2 |
| Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record | 2 |
| FUVATESlocation not on record | 2 |
| UTFPR-CPlocation not on record | 2 |
| Harvard Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paranálocation not on record | 2 |
| Salvador, BR | 2 |
| UFPRlocation not on record | 2 |
| Universidad de los Andes (UniAndes)location not on record | 1 |
| Universidad de Nariño (UdeNar)location not on record | 1 |
| CNF-UFHBlocation not on record | 1 |
| San Isidro, AR | 1 |
| Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paranálocation not on record | 1 |
| Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX | 1 |
| HACAMlocation not on record | 1 |
| Porto Alegre, BR | 1 |
| Station d'Ecologie de Lamtolocation not on record | 1 |
| Durham, US | 1 |
| Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX | 1 |
| North Carolina Museum of Natural Scienceslocation not on record | 1 |
| Fort Worth, US | 1 |
| Centro de Estudios y Colecciones Biológicas para la Conservaciónlocation not on record | 1 |
| Escuela Agrícola Panamericanalocation not on record | 1 |
| Fundación Estación Biológica Guayacanallocation not on record | 1 |
| Santiago de Cali, CO | 1 |
| Universidad de Caldas (UCaldas)location not on record | 1 |
| arosemena tola, EC | 1 |
| Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BO | 1 |
| Mérida, MX | 1 |
| Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabascolocation not on record | 1 |
| Universität Tübingenlocation not on record | 1 |
| Austin, US | 1 |
| Universidade de Passo Fundolocation not on record | 1 |
| Lake Charles, US | 1 |
| Cuiabá, BR | 1 |
| Universidade Federal de Santa Catarinalocation not on record | 1 |
| RBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| UNESP-IBILCElocation not on record | 1 |
| Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record | 1 |
| Antiguo Cuscatlán, SV | 1 |
| UFSCarlocation not on record | 1 |
| UFBAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles (CRSN/Lwiro)location not on record | 1 |
| Madison, US | 1 |
| HUENFlocation not on record | 1 |
| CEPLAClocation not on record | 1 |
| Dekalb, US | 1 |
| Universidade Federale do Rio Grande do Sullocation not on record | 1 |
| Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (MNCR)location not on record | 1 |
| Yaoundé, CM | 1 |
| UNESP-RClocation not on record | 1 |
| Chaguaramas, TT | 1 |
| Castelar, AR | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.