Polystachya
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Polystachya
| Polystachya | |
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| Polystachya laxiflora | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Tribe: | Vandeae |
| Subtribe: | Polystachyinae |
| Genus: | Polystachya Hook. |
| Species | |
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About 100, see text |
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| Synonyms | |
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Epiphora Lindl. |
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Polystachya, abbreviated Pol in horticultural trade, is a flowering plant genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae). This rather distinctive genus was described by William Jackson Hooker in 1824 and is the type genus of the subtribe Polystachyinae. It contains about 100 species.
Selected species
- Polystachya bicalcarata
- Polystachya concreta
- Polystachya cooperi
- Polystachya cultriformis
- Polystachya farinosa
- Polystachya geniculata
- Polystachya kupensis
- Polystachya laxiflora
- Polystachya longiscapa Summerh.
- Polystachya maculata
- Polystachya oligophylla
- Polystachya puberula
- Polystachya rivae
- Polystachya subdiphylla
- Polystachya superposita
- Polystachya victoriae
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