Cynorkis cardiophylla Schltr. 1916 SECTION Parviflorae
Photos by © Rahaingoson Fabienand the Natusfera Website
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter andThe Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLIER 
Common Name The Heart Shaped Leaves Cynorkis
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in central and south central Madagascar in scree at elevations of 1500 to 2400 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a single, adpressed to the ground, suborbicular to widely oval, apiculate, glabrous leaf that blooms in the summer through earlier fall on a terminal erect, densely many flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts
Synonyms Bicornella cardiophylla (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras 2006; Cynosorchis cardiophylla Schlter. 1916
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as Cynosorchis cardiophylla drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2008 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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