Polystachya pachychila Summerh. 1953 SECTION Cultriformes Kraenzl.

Inflorescence Photos by © The Orchid Nord Website

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Common Name The Broad Leafed Polystachya

Flower Size

Found in Zaire, Rwanda and Kenya at elevations around 1800 to 2300 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with clustered, narrowly cylindrical, dark green pseudobulbs carrying a single, elliptic to ovate, obtuse, basally auriculate leaf that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, sparsely hairy, branched, 1.6 to 6" [4 to 15 cm] long, successively several to 60 flowered inflorescence with inconspicuous bracts.

Synonyms

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; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 2 Szlach. etal 2015 drawing good;

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