Polystachya golungensis Rchb.f. 1865 SECTION Polystachya

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Common Name The Golunge Polystachya [An area in Angola whree the type was collected]

Flower Size .2" [6mm]

Found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Togo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Zaire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe in lowland evergreen and riverine forests at elevations of 200 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing, high level epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with narrowly conical to cylindrical, curved, close set pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4, fleshy, narrowly strap-shaped, conduplicate, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, to 16" [40 cm] long, shortly branched, many flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by papery sheaths and carrying rather fleshy, sparsely pubescent flowers.

Synonyms Dendrorchis golungensis (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Polystachya coriacea Rolfe 1913; Polystachya johnsonii Kraenzl. 1926; Polystachya mayombensis De Wild. 1903; Polystachya spiranthoides Kraenzl. 1926

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing ok; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1996; African Orchids in the WIld and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998; Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004

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