Cynorkis perrieri Schltr. 1916 SECTION Parviflorae
Photo by © Ando Andriamanohera and The Natusfera Website
Drawing by © Perrier and The Plant Illustration Website
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Common Name or Meaning Perrier's Cynorkis [French Botanist in Madagascar 1900's]
Flower Size
Found in central Madagascar on rocky outcrops at elevations around 1600 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing litho-terrestrial with rounded, villous tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying a single, radical, elliptic-lanceolate, acute to apiculate leaf that blooms in the later summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, hispid-glandular, 3 to 7 flowered inflorescence with 2 to 4, distant bracts and lanceolate-acuminate floral bracts.
Synonyms Bicornella perrieri (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras 2006; Cynosorchis perrieri Schltr. 1916
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939 as Cynosorchis perrier drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2008; A field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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