Polystachya bamendae Szlach., Baranow & Mytnik 2013 SECTION Superpositae Drawing by Mytnik and A phylogenetic and morphological study of Polystachya sect. Superpositae (Orchidaceae) with description of a new species from Cameroon Website

Common Name The Bamenda Highlands Polystachya [An Area of Cameroon]

Flower Size .24" [6mm]

Found in Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon in montane forests at elevations around 2150 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with superposed, asrising from the middle or apice of the previous fusiform pseudobulbs carrying 4, apical, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, shortly acuminate leaves that blooms in the fall on a branched, 3.2" [8 cm] long, rachis fractiflex, pubescent, 4 to 20 flowered inflorescence with caudate floral bracts and carrying sparsely pubescent, fleshy flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Pl. Syst. Evol. 300: 22 Szlach., Baranow & Mytnik 2013 A phylogenetic and morphological study of Polystachya sect. Superpositae (Orchidaceae) with description of a new species from Cameroon; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 2 Szlachetko etal 2015 drawing fide;

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