Cynorkis melinantha Schltr. 1924 SECTION Parviflora
Photo by © Romer and The Natusfera Website
© TYPE Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning Millet Blooming Like Cynorchis
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in central Madagascar on rocky outcrops on quartz soil at elevations of 1500 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing litho-terrestrial with a radical, linear-acute, attenuate into the petiolate base leaf leaf that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, conical or oblong, 1.6" [4 cm] long, densely 7 to 20 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Bicornella melinantha (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981 as Cynosorchis melinantha; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy; Cribb anmd Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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