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Polystachya stricta is an orchid species identified by Rolfe in 1909. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Polystachya bennettiana.
ORIGIN: Found in Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroons, Rwanda, Zaire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia on large trees in open forests and riverine forests at elevations around 900 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, slender stems enveloped basally by loose tubular sheaths and carrying 2 to 6, widely spaced, spreading, ligulate or narrowly elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a erect to recurved, terete, pubescent, many branched, 3.2 to 12 [8 to 30 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with pubescent externally, vanilla scented flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2.2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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