Cynorkis ampullacea H.Perrier ex Hermans 2007 SECTION Parviflorae

TYPE Collection Sheet by Perrier

Common Name The Bladder? Carrying Cynorkis

Flower Size .4 to .48" [1 to 1.2 cm]

Found in central and central eastern Madagascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations of 1400 to 2370 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 1 to rarely 2, radiacal, linear-lanceolate, acute, attenuate towards the base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, hispidulous-glandulous, somewhat secund, loosely 4 to 12 flowered inflorescence with 1/3 as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying light violet with a darker violet are on the lipflowers

Synonyms Bicornella ampullacea Szlach. & Kras 2006; Cynorkis cuneilabia subsp. ampullacea H.Perrier 1931

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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