Polystachya doggettii Rendle & Rolfe 1908 SECTION Cultriformes Collection Sheet and Drawing by © Summerhayes

Common Name or Meaning Doggett's Polystachya

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Zaire and Uganda at elevations around 2500 to 3350 meters as a small sized, cold growing lithophyte with a short stem carrying 1 to 2, linear-oblong, obtuse leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence carrying yellow rose flowers

Rendle 1908 compares this species to P transvaalensis but it is a lower elevation plant and is distinguished by the short truncate bracts, larger flwoers and the lip with an uncrested lip disc.

"Similar to H galatea but it differs in the smaller flowers, the shorter mentum and the differently shaped lip, the claw being short and broad, the lateral lobes rounded and not clearly separated from the middle lobe, while the middle lobe itself has a promi- nent recurved acute apex. The lip, as remarked by Kraenzlin, is very difficult to flatten out, assuming dif-ferent outlines according to the way it is flattened." Summerhayes 1942

Synonyms Polystachya schinziana Kraenzl. 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 38: 235 Rendle & Rolfe 1908

Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 68: 421 Kraenzl. 1923 as P schinziana

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 10: 292 Summerhayes 1942

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