Polystachya acridolens Summerh. 1947 publ. 1948 SECTION Affines Type Specimen by Moreau and JSTOR Plant Sciences Website

Common Name The Acrid Smelling Polystachya

Flower Size

Found in southwest Tanzania on trees and rocks near rivers at elevations around 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with clustered, ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, erect-spreading, ligulate to linear-ligulate, rounded and slightly bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, unbranched, 1.4 to 2.8" [3.5 to 7 cm] long, 3 to 8 flowered, terete, pubescent inflorescence carrying acrid smelling flowers

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 2 Cribb 1984;

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