Cynorkis debilis (Hook.f.) Summerh. 1933 SECTION Parviflorae
Plant and Flowers in situ Mozambique
photos by © Bart Wursten and The Mozambique Flora Website
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EARLY 
Common Name The Weak Cynorkis
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25cm]
Found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Gabon, Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Tanzania on mossy floors of upland rainforest and plantations at elevations of 900 to 2000 meters as a miniature to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with globose, ovoid to elliptic, wooly tubers giving rise to an erect, slender, sparsely glandular hairy to glabrous stem carrying 1 to 2, basal, spreading to suberect, lanceolate, ovate to elliptical, shortly acuminate, glabrous leaves and a few lanceolate, acuminate sheaths above that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, to 9.6" [24 cm] long, rather laxly to 40 flowered, glandular hairy inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts .
Synonyms Bicornella debilis (Hook.f.) Szlach. & Kras 2006; Bicornella hanningtonii (Rolfe) Szlach. & Kras 2006; Bicornella lisowskii (Szlach.) Szlach. & Kras 2006; Cynorkis hanningtonii Rolfe 1898; Cynorkis johnsonii Rolfe 1898; Cynorkis lisowskii Szlach. 1994; *Habenaria debilis Hook.f. 1864
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968 as C hanningtonii drawing fide; The Epiphytic Orchids of Malawi Morris 1970 as Cynorkis hanningtonii; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as C hanningtonii drawing/photo fide; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 as C hanningtonii drawing fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 as C hanningtonii; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bicornella lisowskii drawing fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bicornella hanningtonii drawing fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bicornella debilis drawing fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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