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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
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| Type location: |
Tanzania |
| Notes: | The population on Mt Mulanje differs slightly from northern and East African plants and may represent a separate taxon. |
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| Habitat: | On trees and rocks in high rainfall woodland and submontane evergreen forest. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1750 - 2200 m |
| Flowering time: | Oct - Nov(Sept-Oct on Mt Mulanje) |
| Worldwide distribution: | Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and ?Zambia. |
| National distribution: | N,S |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 331. Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 27. La Croix, I. & Cribb, P.J. (1998). Orchidaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 11(2) Pages 340 - 342. La Croix, I. et al. (1983). Malawi Orchids Volume 1 Epiphytic Orchids National Fauna Preservation Society of Malawi Page 112. (Includes a picture). La Croix, I. et al. (1991). Orchids of Malawi A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam Page 224. (Includes a picture). Morris, B. (1970). Epiphytic Orchids of Malawi The Society of Malawi Page 74. As Polystachya nr. heckmanniana Stewart, J. & Campbell, B. (1996). Orchids of Kenya Timber Press Inc, Portland Oregon, USA ISBN0-88192-357-5 Page 68. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 139. |
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