Cynorkis sacculata Schltr. 1916 SECTION Parviflorae
Photo by © Landy Rita and The Natusfera Website
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Sack Shaped Cynorkis
Flower Size 1/2"
Found in central Madagascar in ericoid bushes at elevations around 2300 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with oblong, villous tubers giving rise to a hispid glandular stem carrying several acuminate sheaths that has no leaves at blooming which is in the summer on a terminal, erect, to 1.8" [4.5 cm] long, nearly loose, 8 to 15 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
Synonyms Bicornella sacculata (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras 2006; Cynosorchis sacculata Schltr. 1916;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Crib & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009
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