Cynorkis sororia Schltr. 1913 SECTION Parviflorae

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Closely Related Cynorkis

Flower Size .8 to .95" [2 to 2.4 cm]

Found in northern and northeastern Madagascar in mossy forests by streams in sand at elevations of 800 to 1700 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte with 2 oblong tubers giving rise to a single, radical, elliptical-acute, attenuate compressed basally leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring and again in late summer and early fall the on a terminal, erect, glabrous, dense, 4.8 to 12" [12 to 30 cm] long overall, rachis 1.6 to 8" [4 to 20 cm], 4 to 20 flowered inflorescence.

The scientific name refers to the close relationship this species has with C ridleyi but this one differs in the shape of the rostellum [#12 above in drawing]

Synonyms Bicornella sororia (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras 2006; Cynosorchis sororia Schltr. 1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; [ Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981 as Cynosorchis sororia; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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