Polystachya leonensis Rchb.f. 1881

Photo by © Kew and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Sierra Leone Polystachya

Flower Size .28" [7 mm]

Found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Cameroon at elevations of 400 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with close set, globose pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 6, lanceolate to oblanceolate leaves that blooms in the winter on a usually unbranched, 3.6 to 12" [9 to 30 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Dendrorkis leonensis (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963; African Orchid in Cultivation and the Wild La Croix 1997; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Orchid Digest vol 71 #3 2007 photo fide;

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