Polystachya fischeri Rchb.f. ex Kraenzl. 1926 SECTION Affines

Plant and Flowers Photos by W Bachmann and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

SECTION Polychaete CribbPhoto by la Croix and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common Name Fischer's Polystachya

Flower Size

Found in Kenya and Tanzania in dry evergreen forests at elevations around 500 to 1400 meters in as a small sized, hot to coolgrowing epiphyte with clustered, ovoid to narrowly conical pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse to rounded apically leaves that blooms in the winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, densely pubescent, few to many flowered inflorescence with ovate to cordate, mucronate floral bracts.

Synonyms Polystachya kilimanjari Kraenzl. 1926

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996;

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