Polystachya mystacioides De Wild. 1903 `SECTION Aporoidea

Inflorescence Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Mystacidium-Like Polystachya [refers to the monopodial appearance of the plant]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Gabon and Zaire in dense forests as a small to medium sized, warm growing epiphtye with a creeping to pendant stem carrying numerous, distichous, held in a fan, fleshy, bilaterally compressed, ovate, acute leaves that blooms on short, terminal, single flowered inflroescence

Synonyms Szlachetkoella mystacioides (De Wild.) Mytnik 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997

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