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Polystachya bella; photograph C T Johansson, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BYC T Johansson, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Polystachya bella Summerh.

Orchidaceae · Kenya

No habitat climate
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Polystachya bella, photograph C T Johansson, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPolystachya bella, photograph Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPolystachya bella, photograph Averater, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPolystachya bella, photograph Averater, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPolystachya bella, photograph Averater, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPolystachya bella, photograph Averater, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 9 photographs ›

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 3 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 3 of the 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeKenya · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“pseudobulbous epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: C T Johansson, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Averater, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4).

Other Polystachya 14 in the reference

Polystachya adansoniae Polystachya adansoniae Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiPolystachya affinis Polystachya affinis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Justin Ponder Polystachya cerea Orchidaceae Polystachya concreta Polystachya concreta Greater yellowspike orchid Photo: CC BY, Brynn FrickePolystachya cultriformis Polystachya cultriformis Powder Orchid Photo: CC BY, Jason BergerPolystachya foliosa Polystachya foliosa Lesser yellowspike orchid Photo: CC BY, Letizia WeichgrebePolystachya galeata Polystachya galeata Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Vincent DroissartPolystachya lineata Polystachya lineata Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Victor De la CruzPolystachya neobenthamia Polystachya neobenthamia Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiPolystachya nyanzensis Polystachya nyanzensis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, AveraterPolystachya ottoniana Polystachya ottoniana White Snout Orchid Photo: CC BY, Henry de Lange Polystachya paniculata Orchidaceae all 15 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidata

The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
Summerh.
Native to
Kenya
Wild records
3 in range · 3 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-223 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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