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Common Name Heckel's Polystachya

Flower Size 3/4" [2.2 cm]

Found in northern Madagascar in lichen rich forest at elevations of 1000 to 1700 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 4 , ligulate, leaves that blooms in the fall on a shorter, not branched, 8 to 15 flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009

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