Polystachya seticaulis Rendle 1913 SECTION Polychaete Cribb
Photo by © Michel Geniez
Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Faoundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Bristly Stem Polystachya
Flower Size .24 to .32" [6 to 8 mm]
Found in Liberia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Congo and Zaire in evergreen forests at elevations of 50 to 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with very slender, not swollen, fusiform, forming dense mats of pseudobulbs and carrying 2 to 6, apical linear, acaute, suberect to subspreading, distichous leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, erect, glabrous, filiform, up to 2 branched, each to .28" [7 mm] long, .4 to 4" [1 to 10 cm] long ovarall, densely 5 to 20 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, acute, imbricating floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 drawing ok; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 2 Szlatch. etal 2014 drawing ok
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