Polystachya minuta (Aubl.) Britton

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Orchidaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Polystachya minuta (Aubl.) Britton

  • Description

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    Species Description - Stems rather slender, 2-6 dm. long. Sheaths many-striate, 2-4 cm. long; leaves oblong or linear-oblong, 6-30 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, acute or obtuse, shorter than the stem; panicle 3 dm. long or less, sometimes reduced to a single raceme; racemes rather densely several-many-flowered; bracts acute, about 2 mm. long; flowers greenish-yellow; buds obliquely 3-angled; median sepal ovate, 3-4 mm. long, the lateral ones oblique, a little longer; petals narrowly spatulate, shorter than the sepals; lip about 4 mm. long, glandular-hairy within, the median lobe emarginate, the lateral lobes incurved; capsule 10-12 mm. long.

  • Distribution

    On trees in coppices, Abaco, Andros and New Providence : Florida ; Cuba to Virgin Gorda, south to Trinidad and South America. Large Polystachya. Catesby, 2 : pi. 55.

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