Polystachya henrici Schltr. 1924 SECTION Polystachya

TYPE Drawing by Schlechter © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Common Name Perrier's Polystachya [French Botanist in Madagascar 1900's]

Flower Size .48 to .52" [1.2 to 1.3 cm]

Found in central and east central Madagascar in grasslands and xerophytic scrub or on rock outcrops at elevations of 1000 to 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with oblong-cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying 2, ligulate leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal, erect, peduncle enveloped by 3, long, narrow sheaths, glabrous, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, to 10 flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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