Polystachya supfiana Schltr. 1905 SECTION Cultriformis [Thouars] Sprengel

Plant and Inflorescence Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website

TYPE Drawing Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name or Meaning

Flower Size

Found in Nigeria, Gabon and Cameroon in submontane forests at elevations up to 1250 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with narrowly cylindrical, slender, delicate pseudobulbs enveloped by 1 to 2 basal sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear-oblong to narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, .4" [1 cm] long, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts

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

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