Polystachya bicalcarata Kraenzl. 1905 SECTION Cultriformies Kraenzl. Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The 2 Spurred Polystachya

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Nigeria, the Gulf of Guinea Islands and Cameroon in submontane and montane forests at elevations of 950 to 2100 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with narrowly cylindrical pseudobulbs enveloped by 2 to 3 membraneous sheaths and carrying a single, linear to lanceolate, acute to subacute, sometimes obtuse, fleshy, thick, cuneate below into the articulate base leaf that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on an erect, 2 to 3 branched, 1 to 4.8" [2.5 to 12 cm] long, shorter than the leaf, glabrous, successively few, several flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate to triangular, amplexicaul, acuminate, glabrous floral bracts and carrying medium sized, non-resupinate flowers .

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 23 1393 - 1456 Brieger 1990 ; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 2 Szlachetko etal 2015 drawing fide;

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