Cynorkis guttata Hermans & P.J.Cribb 2007 SECTION Imerinorchis

Inflorescence

Photos by © John Varigos and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

A less common color form

Photo by © Lourens Grobler

LATER

Common Name The Spotted Cynorkis

Flower Size

Found in montane and riverine forests on banks and rocks at elevations of 800 to 1800 meters as a small to just medium szied, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a solitary, basal, strap-shaped leaf that blooms in the later spring on an erect, terminal, to 14" [35 cm] long, arising from a newly developing shoot, green suffused with brown red, densely 10 to 35 flowered inflorescence with green, red tipped floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #3 2009 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;

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