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Polystachya

genus of plants

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ2333118 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

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“Polystachya” enters the record as genus of plants. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Polystachya, genus and plants can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1824—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Polystachya, genus and plants.
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“Polystachya” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Polystachya, genus and plants provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2333118. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1824.

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This entry incorporates text from “Polystachya” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.