| Polystachya bifida | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Genus: | Polystachya |
| Species: | P. bifida |
| Binomial name | |
| Polystachya bifida | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Polystachya bifida is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, native from south-east Nigeria to west-central tropical Africa. [1] It was first described by John Lindley in 1862. [2]
Polystachya bifida is native to south-east Nigeria and large parts of west-central tropical Africa: Burundi, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Gulf of Guinea islands, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [1]
Polystachya farinosa was assessed as "endangered" in the 2017 IUCN Red List, where it is said to be native only to Cameroon. [3] As of February 2023 [update] , P. farinosa was regarded as a synonym of Polystachya bifida, which has a much wider distribution. [1]
The Guinean forest–savanna mosaic is an ecoregion of West Africa, a band of interlaced forest, savanna, and grassland running east to west and dividing the tropical moist forests near the coast from the West Sudanian savanna of the interior.
Bobgunnia fistuloides, synonym Swartzia fistuloides, is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae. It is native to west and west-central tropical Africa.
The chestnut-capped flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Erythrocercidae.
The copper sunbird is a species of passerine bird in the family Nectariniidae. It is native to tropical Africa, its range extending from Senegal and Guinea in the west to South Sudan and Kenya in the east, and southwards to Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
The chestnut wattle-eye is a species of bird in the family Platysteiridae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical swamps, and moist savanna.
Fraser's musk shrew is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. This large black shrew was first described by the British zoologist Louis Fraser in 1843. Its exact definition is unclear; the karyotype comes from Ivory Coast but not from Equatorial Guinea, which is given as the type locality.
Bulbophyllum micropetalum is a species of plant in the family Orchidaceae. It is found in Cameroon and the island of Bioko in Equatorial Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Polystachya, abbreviated Pol in horticultural trade, and commonly known as yellowspike orchid, is a flowering plant genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae). This rather distinctive genus was described by William Jackson Hooker in 1824 and is the type genus of the subtribe Polystachyinae. It contains about 100 species widespread across many of the tropical areas of the world.
Polystachya geniculata is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is endemic to Cameroon. It is known from only two locations. It grows in the soil or on rocks.
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Hyparrhenia is a genus of grasses. Many species are known commonly as thatching grass.
Ancistrorhynchus is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family Orchidaceae. It contains 16 species native to tropical Africa.
Calyptrochilum is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family Orchidaceae native to tropical Africa, with one species extending into Brazil.
Cyrtorchis is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family Orchidaceae native to Africa.
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Oeceoclades saundersiana is a terrestrial orchid species in the genus Oeceoclades that is native to a large area in tropical Africa. It can be found in west tropical Africa, west-central tropical Africa, northeast tropical Africa (Ethiopia), east tropical Africa, and south tropical Africa. It was first described by the German botanist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach in 1866 as Eulophia saundersiana. It was later transferred to the genus Oeceoclades in 1976 by Leslie Andrew Garay and Peter Taylor. Garay and Taylor noted that O. saundersiana has a labellum with four lobes of equal size and the pseudobulb is long and cylindrical with two leaves.
Synsepalum revolutum is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapotaceae, native to west and west central tropical Africa. It was first described by John Gilbert Baker in 1877 as Sideroxylon revolutum.
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