Polystachya fractiflexa Summerh. 1956

Photos by Fredric Melki

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Common Name The Fractiflex Polystachya [refers to the inflorescence]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Cameroon, Gabon and Zaire in lowland rainforests as a mini-miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with short rhizome giving rise to a cylindrical, erect, non basally swollen pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2 at mid pseudobulb and 3 or so at the apex, oblanceolate, acute, somewhat coriaceous, smooth margined, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erect then arching, 2 to 3.6" [5 to 9 cm] long, overall, peduncle provided with 2 to 3 imbricate bracts, rachis 5 to 8 branched, successively few, several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide;

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