Polystachya concreta [Jacq.]
Description: Epiphyte orchid grow on fruit trees at elevations of 5 to 1650 meters, as a miniature to small sized hot to warm growing epiphyte which can be found in both tropical hemispheres in China, India, Sri Lankha, Nicobar, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, the Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Florida, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Fr Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina with ovoid, tapered pseudobulbs enveloped by a series of imbricate, scarious bracts with 2 to 4 oblanceolate, acute, leaves that is conduplicate to the tapered, subpetiolate base that flowers on an apical, 1 1/2" to 12" [4 to 30 cm] long, many flowered, paniculate inflorescence subtended by 2 to 3 large, compressed, ancipitous bracts arising on a mature pseudobulb with large, pale, scarious sheaths occuring in spring and summer.
Photorights: Sok Vichea
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