Eulophia obtusa

Eulophia obtusa, a showy and distinctive species of orchid, popularly known as the ground orchid, recorded from Bangladesh, North India and Nepal (Sourav, M.S.H, et al. 2017). This orchid growing in seasonally in grassland. It is a grass associated orchid species. A Bangladesh based renowned botanist and ornithologist Md Sharif Hossain Sourav first described this rare species from Bangladesh in 2017 (Sourav, M.S.H, et al. 2017). There are only three collections in the Kew Herbarium dates from 1902, which suggests that it is quite a rare species. It is assessed as critically endangered (CR) in Bangladesh according to the 2023 edition of IUCN Red Listing criteria. Very recently this species was rediscovered in India after 118 years.