Cynorkis aphylla Schltr. 1913 SECTION Lowiorchis TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Leafless Cynorkis [refers to the species being leafless at blooming]

Flower Size

Found in northern Madagascar on rocky outcrops on sandstone and sand at elevations of sealevel to 200 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial or lithophyte with widely, oblong-acute, plicate leaves that are absent at flowering which occurs in the late winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, 4 to 6.4" [10 to 16 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with much longer than the pedicel floral bracts.

Synonyms Lowiorchis aphylla (Schltr.) Szlach. 2004; Cynosorchis aphylla Schltr. 1913;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939 as Cynosorchis aphylla drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2008;

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