Polystachya clareae Hermans 2003
Closer Flower View Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
Common Name Clare's Polystachya [Mother of German Orchid collector Hopps]
Flower Size
Found in northwestern and east central Madagascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations around 700 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte or terrestrial with conical-cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4, linear-ligulate leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, simple or to 3 branched, clustered, many flowered inflorescence.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide
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