Cynorkis lindleyana Hermans 2007
SECTION Imerinorchis
Photos by Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website
LATE EARLIER
Common Name or Meaning The Graceful Cynorchis
Flower Size
Found in Madagascar in marshes and prairies in humid areas at elevations of 1000 to 2500 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial without tubers and has 3 to 5, linear-acuminate leaves that blooms in the late spring, summer through earlier fall on an erect, 10 to 14" [\25 to 35 cm] long, loosely several to many flowered inflorescence.
CAUTION!! Please use caution, does not conform well with the photo references that I have.
Synonyms *Bicornella gracilis Lindl. 1835; Cynorkis gracilis (Lindl.) Schltr. 1924; Cynosorchis gracilis Schltr. 1925; Imerinorchis gracilis (Lindl.) Szlach. 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Bicornella gracilis; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981 as Cynosorchis gracilis; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as Cynosorchis gracilis; *Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo ok?; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo ok?;
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