Polystachya lineata Rchb.f. 1872

SECTION Polystachya Photo by TwaCar and Flickr Orchid Photo Site.

Common Name The Longitudinally Striped Polystachya

Flower Size .22" [6mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua in wet montane forests at elevations around 900 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with slender, tapering pseudobulbs carrying 3, apical, linear-ligulate, obliquely retuse, conduplicate, basally clsping leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminalpaniculate, 7.2" [18 cm] long, slightly compressed, arching, many flowered inflorescence

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1869 drawing ok stripes missing; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1134 Hamer 1984 drawing okish

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