Polystachya tenuissima Kraenzl. 1894 SECTION Cultriformes
Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning The Very Delicate Polystachya
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Zaire, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania in rainforests, highland forests and woodlands at elevations of 300 to 2500 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with tightly clustered, narrowly cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a more or less, fleshy, subterete to flat, linear, cuneate below retuse or obtuse apically leaves that blooms in the fall on a stout, 2 to 6 branched, as long as the leaf, [2.8 to 15.5 cm] long, to 40 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Polystachya ashantensis Kraenzl. 1926; Polystachya inconspicua Rendle 1905
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968 as P inconspicua ; Flora or East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996; African Orchids in Cultivation and the Wild La Croix 1997; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 drawing fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 2 Szlatch. etal 2014 drawing fide
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