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Polystachya oxychila is an orchid species identified by Schltr. ex Kraenzl. in 1926. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Polystachya dolichophylla.
ORIGIN: Found in Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Siera Leone, Togo, Cameroon and Gabon in sedge mats and forests fringing mangrove swamps at elevations of 260 to 900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte and sometime terrestrial with conical to narrowly conical pseusobulbs caryying 2 to 5, narrowly oblong, obtusely bilobed apically leaves that blooms spring summer and fall on an erect, densely pubescent, to 5 branched, 4.8 to to 10 [12 to 25 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence arising before the leaves mature and has ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, densely pubescent floral bracts.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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