Cynorkis anisoloba Summerh. 1957
Photo by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite
HOLOTYPE Collection sheet by © Summerhayes ="https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:625250-1"> Kew's Plants of the World WebSite
Common Name The Unequal Lobed Cynorkis
Flower Size
Found in the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe in damp to wet soils near rocks at elevations of 1350 to 2400 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with a few basal, ovate to lanceolate, acute to apiculate leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, slender, purple, pubescent, laxly, many successively flowering inflorescence with lanceolate, acute to acuminate, shorter than the flower floral bracts.
" It may be distinguished from the closely-related C debilis by the lip. In C. anisoloba, it is 3-lobed only in the apical half, and the side lobes are much narrower than the mid lobe. C rungweensis which also has the lateral lobes separated as in C anisoloba has appreciably smaller flowers while the distal lateral labellum lobes are quite small and triangular acute." Summerhayes1957
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kew Bull. 12: 108 Summerhayes 1957
Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995;
Terrestrial African Orchids, A select Review John S. Ball 2009 drawing fide
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