Polystachya obanensis Rendle 1913 SECTION Affines Kranzlin
Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning The Oban Polystachya
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Cameroon and Gabon in humid lowland forests at elevations up to 900 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with oblong, flattened and prostrate to the substratum, chain forming, new growth ariosing from the apex of the previous pseudobulb and carrying 2 basal leaves and a single, apical, oblong to linear-lanceolate, obtuse, shortly and unequally bilobed apically, almoist sessile base leaves that blooms in the winter and summer on an erect, densely pubescent, rachis with 1 to 2 sterile bracts, branched to simple, to 8" [20 cm] long, 15 to 20 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate below, acuminate above, rather thin, densely and shortly pubescent floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 2 Szlach. etal 2015 drawing good;
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