Polystachya coriscensis Rchb.f. 1881 SECTION Polychaete Cribb
Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Common Name The Corsico Polystachya [An Island off the coast of Gabon]
Flower Size
Found in Nigeria and western central Africa as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with ligulate, coriaceous, unequally bidentate apically leaves that blooms in the summer on a puberulent, somewhat paniculate, several flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Polystachya kiessleri Schltr. 1909
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997
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