Polystachya setifera Lindl. 1862 SECTION Polychaete Cribb Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Faoundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Bristle Carrying Polystachya

Flower Size .24 to .32" [6 to 8 mm]

Found in only on Principe of Gulf of Guinea Islands in evergreen forests at elevations of 260 to 360 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with superposed, swollen basally, pseudobulbs carrying 4, apical oblong-elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse leaves that blooms in the winter and the fall on a terminal, erect, paniculate, rachis purple, pubescent, to 8.8" [22 cm] long, to 50 flowered inflorescence with setaceous, acuminate, acute, green floral bracts.

Synonyms Dendrorkis setifera (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 2 Szlatch. etal 2014 drawing ok

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