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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Eulophia alta
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Fawcett & Rendle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Jamaica
|place=1: 112. 1910
|year=1910
}}
|common_names=Wild coco
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Limodorum altum
|authority=Linnaeus
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyrtopera longifolia
|authority=(Kunth) Reichenbach f.
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyrtopera woodfordii
|authority=(Sims) Lindley
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyrtopodium woodfordii
|authority=Sims
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Dendrobium longifolium
|authority=Kunth
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eulophia woodfordii
|authority=(Sims) Rolfe
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Platypus altus
|authority=(Linnaeus) Small
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Platypus papilliferus
|authority=Small
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Cymbidieae;Orchidaceae (tribe Cymbidieae) subtribe Eulophiinae;Eulophia;Eulophia alta
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Cymbidieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Cymbidieae) subtribe Eulophiinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eulophia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eulophia alta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 640
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>70–170 cm. <b>Leaves</b> linear-elliptic to narrowly ovate, 20–120 × 3–11 cm, apex acuminate. <b>Inflorescences</b> erect, to 1 m; bracts narrowly ovate to filiform, 1–3 cm. <b>Flowers</b> many, 1.5–2.5 cm wide; sepals light green, very narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, apex acuminate to apiculate; lateral sepals slightly oblique, adnate to column foot; petals spreading, green or green with pink overflush, 13 × 7 mm, broader than sepals; lip red-maroon, concave, saccate, 11–17 × 18–28 mm, slightly to conspicuously 3-lobed, middle lobe apically obtuse, margins undulate, lateral lobes partially enclosing column; disc with erect lamellae; column 7–10 mm. <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid, to 6 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Moist sand and rich soils, in shaded to sunny habitats, swamps, pastures, and roadside ditches
|elevation=10–200[–2000] m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;tropical Africa.
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Eulophia alta
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) Fawcett & Rendle
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cyrtopera longifolia;Cyrtopera woodfordii;Cyrtopodium woodfordii;Dendrobium longifolium;Eulophia woodfordii;Platypus altus;Platypus papilliferus
|basionyms=Limodorum altum
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Moist sand and rich soils, in shaded to sunny habitats, swamps, pastures, and roadside ditches
|elevation=10–200[–2000] m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;tropical Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Jamaica
|publication year=1910
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1314.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Cymbidieae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Cymbidieae) subtribe Eulophiinae
|genus=Eulophia
|species=Eulophia alta
}}<!--

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