Polystachya caloglossa Rchb.f. 1881 SECTION Caulescentes

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

Common Name or Meaning The Beuatiful Lipped Polystachya

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Gulf of Guinea Islands, Cameroon, Gabon, Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Uganda in forests at elevations of 900 to 1500 as a miniature to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, terete psuedobulbs enveloped basally in youth by 1 to 3, tubular, obtuse sheaths and carrying 4 to 5, apical, obovate to oblanceolate, acute, obscurely unequally bilobed apically, undulate marginally leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, racemose to 5 branched, short branched, 1.6 to 4.8" [4 to 12 cm] long, glabrous, compressed inflorescence with a few color variable flowers

Synonyms Dendrorchis caloglossa (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Polystachya excelsa Kraenzl. 1905; Polystachya rolfeana Kraenzl. 1902

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881; Flora Of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984; Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 23 1393 - 1456 Brieger 1990 ; African Orchid in Cultivation and the Wild La Croix 1997; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 2 Szlachetko etal 2015 drawing fide;

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