Polystachya dendrobiiflora is found growing on shrubs in the montane grasslands of Burundi, Congo, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe at elevations of 400 to 2150 meters.
Polystachya dendrobiiflora is a species with relatively large flowers on a straw-like stem, normally flowering before the leaves appear. Flowers showy, opening wide, shell-pink to mauve-pink, sometimes almost white, sometimes with red or lilac spots on the lip. This is an unusual species within the genus, in that it often grows as a terrestrial in shallow sandy soil.
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- Designer: Gordon Drummond
- Printer:John Waddington of Kirkstall Ltd, Leeds, England
- Process: Lithography
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- Watermark: Cockerels
- Perf: 13.5 (comb)
- Cylinders: Printed in four panes, each divided by a gutter strip. Guillotined through horizontal gutter and distributed in sheets of two panes:
- 1A (Yellow), 1A (Magenta), 1A (Cyan), 1A (Black) 1A (Olive) : 1C (Yellow), 1C (Magenta), 1C (Cyan), 1C (Black) 1C (Olive)
- 1B (Yellow), 1B (Magenta), 1B (Cyan), 1B (Black) 1B (Olive) : 1D (Yellow), 1D (Magenta), 1D (Cyan), 1D (Black) 1D (Olive)
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