Cynorkis henrici Schltr. 1924 SECTION Parviflorae Photo by © Phillip J. Cribb and The Arkive Website

Drawing Drawing by © Perrier and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Henrici's Cynorkis [Perrier de Bathie - French Botanist in Madagascar early 1900's]

Flower Size .56 to .64" [1.4 to 1.6 cm]

Found in eastern Madagascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations around 500 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with 3 to 4, radical, elliptical to elliptical-lanceolate, acute to apiculate, gradually attenuate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, basally glabrous becoming bristly-glandular above, to 4" [to 10 cm] long, generally subdense then nearly loose, 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence enveloped by 6 to 8 sheaths with a very acute limbus.

Synonyms Bicornella henrici (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras 2006; Cynosorchis henrici Schltr 1925;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide

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