Polystachya laurentii De Wild. 1903 SECTION Affines Kraenzl.

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Vincent Droissart and his Orchidaceae in Central Africa Website

Common Name Laurent's Polystachya [Belgian Orchid Collector in Zaire later 1800's early 1900's]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda in montane and submontane rainforests at elevations around 150 to 1350 meters as a small to medium sized, hot cool growing epiphyte with ellipsoid pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 4, well spaced, oblong, obtuse leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a terminal, erect, sometimes simple but often with 1 to 5 branched, to 8" [20 cm] long, rather laxly many flowered inflorescence with strongly scented, densely pubescent on the exterior flowers .

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984; Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 23 1393 - 1456 Brieger 1990 photo good; African Orchids in the Wild and in Cultivation La Croix 1997; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 2 2015 drawing good;

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