Cynorkis gymnochiloides (Schltr.) H.Perrier 1931 SECTION Lemuranthe
Photo by © Jean-Michel Hervouet
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Gymnochilum Like Cynorkis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in central Madagascar on rocky outcrops at elevations of 1500 to 2200 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or lithophyte with villous tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying 2 to 5, radical, adpressed to the soil, oblanceolate-elliptical, slightly acuminate leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, hispid-glandular, short to 1" [to 2.5 cm] long, oval-oblong, densely many flowered inflorescence with equal to the pedicel floral bracts.
Synonyms Cynosorchis gymnochiloides [Schltr.] Perrier 1931; *Habenaria gymnochiloides Schltr. 1916; Lemuranthe gymnochiloides (Schltr.) Schltr. 1924
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939 as Cynosorchis gymnochiloides; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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