Polystachya johnstonii Rolfe 1897 SECTION Affines Kranzlin
Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
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Common Name Johnston's Polystachya [American Botanist]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Malawi on open, rocky hillsides and mountaintops at elevations of 1600 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte on Xerophyta with ovoid, oblong, or almost round yet slightly bilaterally flattened pseudobulbs in dense clumps carrying three, lanceolate, dark glossy green, tinged with dark purple, deciduous leaves that blooms in the fall and spring on a 2" [5 cm] long, few to several [2 to 10] flowered inflorescence arising on new pseudobulbs as the leaves develop.
Synonyms Polystachya johnstonii var. roseopurpurea la Croix & P.J.Cribb 1997
ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Epiphytic Orchids of Malawi Morris 1970; Malawi Orchids vol 1 La Croix 1983 drawing fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 photo ok; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998 as Polystachya johnstonii var. roseopurpurea ; Orchid Digest vol 71 #3 2007photo fide;
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