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Orchid Species: Polystachya neobenthamia
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Polystachya neobenthamia is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in O.Warburg (ed.) in 1903.
ORIGIN: Found in Tanzania as a giant sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial or lithophyte on dry exposed rock faces or on mossy ledges at altitudes of 380-2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Tanzania as a giant sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial or lithophyte on dry exposed rock faces or on mossy ledges at altitudes of 380-2000 meters with branched, erect or straggling stems often forming keikis at the nodes and carrying many linear, distichous, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms on a terminal, branched or racemose, densly many flowered, to about 5 [12.5 cm] long inflorescence with fragrant flowers held in a spherical head occurring from the winter till the spring and is a hot to warm growing lithophytic or terrestrial species requiring a bark mix in a pot.
FLOWER SIZE: To 1 inch [to 2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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