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Orchid Species: Polystachya superposita
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Polystachya superposita is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1881.
ORIGIN: Found in western Cameroon in montane and submontane forests at elevations of 1600 to 2500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with narrowly cylindrical pseudobulbs, new growths arising from the middle of the previous one, enveloped by basal sheaths and carrying 2 to 4, lanceolate, linear-elliptic to linear-ligulate, acute, apically bilobed leaves that blooms in the spring and again in the fall on a terminal, erect, paniculate, 1 to 2 [2.5 to 5 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate to triangular-oblong, acute, sparsely glandular floral bracts.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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