Polystachya mystacioides De Wild. 1903 SECTION Aporoideae
Inflorescence and plant Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning The Mystacidium-Like Polystachya [refers to the monopodial appearance of the plant]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Gabon and Zaire in dense forests at elevations of 800 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphtye with a creeping to pendant stem, pseudobulbs that arise from the apex of the previous, some carrying numerous, distichous, held in a fan, fleshy, bilaterally compressed, ovate, acute leaves and other pseudobulbs carrying a single leaf, that blooms at most any time of the year on a short, terminal, almost sessile, single flowered inflroescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous floral bracts.
Synonyms Polystachya crassifolia Schltr. 1905; Szlachetkoella mystacioides (De Wild.) Mytnik 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 23 1393 - 1456 Brieger 1990 ; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera as P crassifolia 2003 photo/drawing fide; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 2 Szlach. etal 2015 as Szlachetkoella mystacioides drawing fide;
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