Polystachya puberula Lindl. 1825 SECTION Polystachya
Photos by © Dominique Bonardi
Drawing by © Lindley and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Short-Haired Polystachya
Flower Size
Found in Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Liberia Cameroon and Gabon at elevations of 100 to 700 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with oblanceolate pseudobulbs carrying c. 5, oblanceolate, lanceoalte to narrowly elliptic, acute, arcuate, sometimes longer than the inflroescence leaves that blooms in the late spring through early fall on an erect, terminal, densely pubescent, branches secondarily branching, to 10, each branch to 2.8" [7 cm] long, widely spreading, 5.2 to 10" [13 to 25 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, densely pubesdcent floral bracts.
Synonyms Dendrorkis puberula (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963; 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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