Polystachya

Genus: Polystachya

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Asparagales > Family: Orchidaceae

About 200 species (mainly Africa, also Asian, Australasian and American tropics), with 27 species native to southern Africa. An additional three species are cultivated in the region.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI), Flora of Zimbabwe and Flora of Mozambique.

Polystachya adonsoniae Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Polystachya albescens
Polystachya caespitifica Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Polystachya campyloglossa Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Polystachya concreta Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Polystachya cultriformis
Polystachya dendrobiiflora [= Dendrobianthe dendrobiiflora] Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Polystachya fusiformis
Polystachya fusiformis × lindblomii Recorded from Zimbabwe. See Flora of Zimbabwe.
Polystachya golungensis Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Polystachya greatrexii Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Polystachya lindblomii Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Polystachya malilaensis Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Polystachya mauritiana
Polystachya melanantha Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Polystachya modesta
Polystachya ngomensis
Polystachya ottoniana Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Polystachya phiriae Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Polystachya pubescens Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Polystachya sandersonii
Polystachya simplex Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Polystachya subumbellata Recorded from Mozambique.
Polystachya transvaalensis
Polystachya vaginata Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Polystachya valentina
Polystachya zambesiaca
Polystachya zuluensis

Other species, cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002).

Polystachya bella

Native to Kenya.

Polystachya brassii

Native to Malawi.

Polystachya eurygantha

Native to Kenya and Uganda.