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Rosim_in_BR 09-16-2009 09:06 AM
Polystachya vulcanica
 
We have two or three species representative of this genus in Brazil, all of them with tiny greenish flowers. The showy ones are from Africa, like this Zairian Polystachya vulcanica. The plant is small, leaves semi-terete and non-resupinate flowers.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2535/...d3cb5221_t.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3472/...9166c395_t.jpg

tuvoc 09-16-2009 11:08 AM
What a little sweetheart.

Kim

Rosim_in_BR 09-16-2009 11:43 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by tuvoc (Post 256203)
What a little sweetheart.

Kim
People who love cabbage orchids joke on these calling them 'grasses' here.Well, beautiful grasses!!:rofl:

Craig Gibbon 12-10-2009 08:38 AM
Just Love those Polystachya's South Africa as a fair amount of species!! We also have a recently described species, Polystachya ngomense, allied to Polystachya pubescens

RosieC 12-10-2009 03:26 PM
Wow that's really pretty! I must have missed it originally.


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