Derivation of specific name
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
ottoniana: after Friedrich Otton, Austrian botanist and director of Schonbrunn Gardens, Vienna in the mid-19th Century
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Polystachya ottoniana Rchb.f. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=118400
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Description
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Small epiphytic or lithophytic herb, the lightgreen pseudobulbs forming a chain. Flowers white with a more or less distinct pink stripe along the centre of the sepals and a broad yellow central line on the recurved lip.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Polystachya ottoniana Rchb.f. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=118400
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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Southern Mozambique, Swaziland and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and Western Cape, South Africa
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Polystachya ottoniana Rchb.f. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=118400
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
