Polystachya vulcanica Kraenzl. 1923 SECTION Cultriformis Kranzl. Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Another Clone Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Scott Dallas of White Oak Orchids

to SPORADICALLY

Common Name The Volcano Polystachya

Flower Size 1/5" to almost 2/5" [6mm to 10 mm]

Found in Rwanda, Uganda and Zaire as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 1650 to 3000 meters in montane forests on mossy branches and occasionally as a lithophyte, with short psuedobulbs in dense clumps, carrying a single, apical, linear, fleshy, flat or terete leaf that blooms on a 1 to 3" [2.5 to 7.5 cm] long, shorter than the leaf, simple, several [to 5] flowered inflorescence arising from the apex of the mature pseudobulb occuring sporadically throughout the year.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 # 6 1968; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984; Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 23 1393 - 1456 Brieger 1990 photo ok; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 3 2007 photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 2 Szlatch. etal 2014 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #4 2016 photo fide;

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