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| [[File:Polystachya_galeata.jpg|thumb|''Polystachya galeata'']]
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| '''Common Name:''' The Helmut-Shaped Polystachya<br />
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| '''Scented:''' yes<br />
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| '''Light Requirements:''' partial shade<br />
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| '''Temperature Requirements:''' intermediate to hot<br />
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| '''Blooms:''' autumn<br />
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| '''Flower Size:''' 4cm<br />
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| '''Synonyms:''' Bulbophyllum ''galeatum'' Lindl. 1830; *Dendrobium ''galeatum'' Sw. 1805; Dendrorchis ''galeata'' (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Graphorchis ''cucullata'' Kuntze 1891; Polystachya ''babilonii'' Geerinck 1987; Polystachya ''cucullata'' T. Durand & Schinz 1895; Polystachya ''galeata var. babilonii'' (Geerinck) Geerinck 1992; Polystachya ''gilletii'' De Wild. 1904; Polystachya ''grandiflora'' Lindl. 1839; Polystachya ''macrantha'' Lindl. ex Hook. 1839
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| Found in Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola in lowland and submontane evergreen forests at elevations of 400 to 1000metres in full to dappled sun as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with cylindrical pseudobulbs forming small clumps carrying a single, apical, oblanceolate or strap shaped, leathery leaf that blooms on an erect, unbranched, 8 to 25cm long, several flowered inflorescence with strongly scented flowers occurring in autumn in cultivation.
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