Polystachya dalzielii Summerh. 1927 SECTION Elasticae Kraenzl.

Photos by Francisco Perez-Vera

Full Shade Cool Winter Spring

Common Name Dalziel's Polystachya [English Botanist 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Cameroon in bushy montane forests at elevations of 1000 to 1750 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to close set, ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 5 to 6, apical, linear, deciduous, not present at blooming leaves that blooms i the winter and spring on a terminal, erect, 2 to 4.8" [5 to 12 cm] long, 3 to 20 flowered inflorescence with minute floral bracts.

Synonyms Epiphorella dalzielii (Summerh.) Mytnik & Szlach. 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide;

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