Polystachya anceps Ridl.1885

Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Lourens Grobler ©

Part shadeWarm Cool LATESpringSummer

Common Name The Double Edged Polystachya

Flower Size

Found only in the Comoros and Madagascar in humid highland forests at elevations of 800 to 1700 meters as a medium szied, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte and is similar to P concreta but differs in the sheaths of the inflorescence that are compressed-ancipitous, often reduced to a single one, has larger flowers, and has a trilobed lip below the center and blooms in the late spring through summer .

Synonyms Dendrorchis anceps (Ridl.) Kuntze 1891; Polystachya hildebrandtii Kraenzl. 1923; Polystachya mauritania var anceps [Ridley] Perrier 1936

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 11 1983 photo; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo so/so

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