Cynorkis buchwaldiana Kraenzl. 1900

TYPE Collection Sheet by © Buchwald and Kraenzlin and Kew's Plants of the World Website

Common Name Buchwald's Cynorkis

Flower Size

Found in Kenya and Tanzania at elevations around 1200 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a thin erect stem carrying a single basal, elliptic leaf and a smaller bract-like leaf that blooms on an erect, rachis gladular-pilose, laxly 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate as long as the ovary floral bracts.

"The TYPE is characterized by a single basal leaf and the middle tooth of the labellum distinctly longer than the others. Both the type and the subspecies braunii have almost identical floral structure being charaterized by a cuneate labellum which is more or less distinctly tridentate at the apex while at the base are rounded projections looking rather like half developed lateral lobes. In the other floral parts there is also good agreement. This occurs in the bracken region in the Usambara Mts. of northern Tanganyika at about 1200 meters. The subspecies braunii occurs in the Voi region of south-eastern Kenya and in north-eastern Tanganyika from the Usambara Mts. southwards to the Uluguru Mts. It occurs in communities containing heaths (Philippia spp.) or among mosses and lichens on rocky ground, usually in shady places in low forest, always between 1600 and 2000 m. al" Summerhayes 1962

Synonyms Cynorkis braunii Kraenzl. 1912 Cynorkis buchwaldiana subsp. braunii (Kraenzl.) Summerh. 1962

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 175 Kraenzlin 1900

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 48: 389 Kraenzlin 1912 as C braunii

Kew Bull. 16: 258 Summerhayes 1962

Kew Bull. 16: 258 Summerhayes 1962 as C buchwaldiana subsp. braunii

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