Cyrtorchis acuminata (Rolfe) Schltr. 1918 SECTION Cyrtorchis
Photo by © The Uzumara Orchid Website
Common Name The Pointed Spur Cyrtorchis
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in The Gulf of Guinea Islands as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect stems carrying oblong, shortly obtusely and unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms on an axillary, several flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate, subacute, cucullate bracts.
"This species is clearly near C. arcuata , of which it may prove eventually to be merely a subspecies. It differs in the very broad leaves and the broad indurated part of the viscidium." Summerhayes 1960
This one in the photo does differ from C arcuata by the length and shape of the spur but I cannot be sure if it is C acuminata
CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution!!
Synonyms *Listrostachys acuminata Rolfe 1897
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Kew Bull. 14: 151 Summerhayes 1960
Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006
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