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Orchid Species: Polystachya spatella
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Polystachya spatella is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in 1894.
ORIGIN: Found in Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda in montane and submontane forests and woodlands at elevations of 1600 to 2700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, erect to pendant, cool to cold growing epiphyte with cylindrical to spindle shaped pseudobulbs arising from the apex of an older pseudobulb and carrying 2, suberect, linear-lanceolate, acute to rounded, unequally bilobed apically leaves and blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, 2 [5 cm] long, few [2 to 8] flowered, racemose inflorescence with ovate to lanceolate, acuminate bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 5/8 inch [1.65 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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