Polystachya malilaensis Schltr. 1915 SECTION Affines Photo by Tudor Harwood © and JSTOR Plant Sciences Website

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Common Name The Mt. Umalila Polystachya [An Area of Tanzania]

Flower Size

Found in Zaire, Angola, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in montane evergreen forests and high rainfall woodlands at elevations around 1200 to 2300 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with ovate to conical, green t oreddish pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate to oblanceolate, often red tinged or with a purple margined leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, minutely pubescent, to 6" [15 cm] long, fairly densely to 20 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Polystachya zambesiaca var. malilaensis (Schltr.) Geerinck 1992

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing ok; Flora of Tropical East Africa Vol 2 Cribb 1984; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998;

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