Polystachya woosnamii Rendle 1908
Collection sheet by © Summerhayes and the Kew's Plants of the World Website
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LATER
EARLY 
Common Name Woosnam's Polystachya
Flower Size
Found in Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda at elevations around 2300 meter as a cold growing epiphyte that blooms in the later summer and early spring
"The vegetative and inflorescence characters are those of P. adansoniae and P. stuhlmannii , but the flowers are larger with a much longer mentum while the lip is differently constructed, having a small orbicular middle lobe." Summerhayes 1947/8
Synonyms Polystachya longevaginata Kraenzl. 1909; Polystachya woosnamii var. nyungweensis Delep. & J.-P.Lebel 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 38: 235 Rendle 1908
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 43: 333 Kraenzlin 1909 as P longevaginata
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939: 494 Summerhayes 1939
Taxonomania 2: 4 Delep. & J.-P.Lebel 2001
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