Cynorkis quinquepartita H.Perrier ex Hermans 2007 SECTION Parviflorae Photo by © C. Grey-Wilson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Five Part Cynorkis

Flower Size

Found in northern Madagascar in montane mossy forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with no tubers and a single, radical, narrowly lanceolate, very acute, very longly attenuate into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, erect, 1.6 to 6" [4 to 15 cm] long, glabrous, less dense, several flowered inflorescence very narrow, very acute, equal to the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Bicornella quinquepartita Szlach. & Kras 2006; Cynosorchis quinquepartita Perrier 1931; *Cynorkis quinquepartita H.Perrier 1931

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as Cynosorchis quinquepartita drawing fide; *Orchids of Madagascar Hermans Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2008; A field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009;

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