Cynorkis minuticalcar Toill.-Gen. & Bosser 1964 SECTION Imerinorchis

TYPE Collection Sheet by © Jean Bosser and The Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle Website

MID

Common Name The Short Spur Cynorkis

Flower Size

Found in central Madagascar in high elevation humid, mossy forests on lake shores or in marshy grasslands at elevations 2400 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniaure to miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with 2 tubers giving rise to 3 to 5, basal, linear, grass-like, erect leaves that blooms in the mid summer on an erect, glabrous, lax, to 2.5 to 1.6" [1 to 4 cm] long, 2 to 15 flowered inflorescence.

Close to C brachyceras but on this one the lip shape is different and the spur and column wings are much shorter

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 drawing/photo fide;

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