Polystachya perrieri Schltr. 1916
Photos by © Lourens Grobler
Common Name or Meaning Perrier's Polystachya [French Botanist in Madagascar 1900's]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in central Madagascar on bare granite rocks at elevations of 1500 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing lithophyte with cylindrical pseuodobulbs carrying 2 to 3, linear-liguate, coriaceous, obtuse leaves that blooms in the summer on a 12 to 24" [30 to 60 cm] long, racemose, densely many flowered inflorescence enveloped by longly adpressed sheaths and a short, thick, rigid, equalling half the length of the pedicel floral bract.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939; Orchid Digest vol 71 #3 2007photo fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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