Cynorkis bimaculata (Ridl.) H.Perrier 1939 SECTION Parviflorae

Inflorescence

Photos by © Vincent Porcher and the Natusfera Website

Full shade Cool Cold LATER Summer

Common Name The Two Spotted Cynorkis

Flower Size .6 to .64" [1.5 to 1.7 cm] long,

Found in central Madagascar in humid highland forests at elevations of 1300 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a spindly stem carrying 2 to 3, radical, narrowly lanceolate, long attenuate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, peduncle 14.8 to 20" [37 to 50 cm] long, provided with 5 to 7 sheaths the first with a more or less developed blade, the others with a much reduced, increasingly acute blade grading to the bracts, rachis 3.2 to 4" [8 to 10 cm] long, subloose, 20 to 30 flowered inflorescence with acute, half as long as the ovary floral bracts,

Synonyms Bicornella bimaculata (Ridl.) Szlach. & Kras 2006; *Habenaria bimaculata Ridl. 1885

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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