Listrostachys
(pronounced: liss-troh-STAY-keez)
Classification
Vandeae subtribe Aerangidinae
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Overview
Monopodial epiphytes. Leaves altenate, distichous, strap-shaped, leathery. Inflorescences axillary, densely-flowered spicate racemes. Flowers strongly two-ranked, oriented with the lips in one plane. Sepals and petals subsimilar, subequal, free, spreading. Lip unlobed, with a spur emerging from the center of the blade. Column straight, with a thickened rim to the stigma; pollinia 2, on separate oblanceolate stipes attached to a common crescent-shaped viscidium.
Distribution
A monotypic genus native to West Africa and Zaire.
Care and Culture Card
See basic growing conditions and care information below.
Grow Listrostachys in pots or baskets with a medium grade epiphyte mixture. Provide warm temperatures, medium light levels and steady atering throughout the year allowing the roots to dry out somewhat between waterings.
Literature
Guillaumin, A. 1920. Les espèces cultivées du genre Listrostachys (Orchidaceae-Sarcanthées). Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. 20:574-577.
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