Cynorkis rungweensis Schltr. 1915 SECTION Parviflorae Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning The Mt Rungwe Cynorkis [A mountain within Tanzania]

Flower Size

Found in Zaire, Burundi and Tanzania in upland grasslands at elevations around 1600 to 2000 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid to ovoid, woolly root-tubers giving rise to an erect, slender stem carrying 2, basal, spreading, lanceolate, oblanceolate to elliptical, acuminate, glabrous leaves and a 1 to 3, lanceolate sheaths above that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, to 4.4" [11 cm] long, sparsely glandular-hairy, 6 to 25 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute shorter than the ovary floral bract.

Synonyms Bicornella rungweensis (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bicornella rungweensis drawing fide

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