Cyrtorchis injoloensis (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918 SECTION Homocolleticon Summerh.
Photo by © Vincent Droissart and The Reasearch Gate Website
Collection sheet by © Kew's Plant of the World Website
Common Name The Injolo Cyrtorchis
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Gabon, Zaire, Uganda and Tanzania in primary forests and relict patches at elevations of 30 to 1200 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with usually pendent stems carrying 8 to 10, linear-oblong, unequally bilobed with rounded lobes apically, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, dense, 8.8 to 10" [22 to 25 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with a bract enveloped in the peduncle and broadly ovate, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
" The species is characteriz16" [ed by the long almost parallel-sided leaves up to 40 cm] in length, the long inflorescences and large bracts. The flowers are rather small (sepals.4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long) with a spur about .8 to 2" [2 to 5 cm] in length." Summerhayes 1960
Synonyms Angraecum ealaense De Wild. 1916; *Angraecum injoloense De Wild. 1916; Cyrtorchis ealaensis (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918; Homocolleticon injoloensis (De Wild.) Szlach. & Olszewski 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 5: 187 De Wild 1916 as Angraecum injoloense
Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 5: 185 De Wild 1916 as Angraecum ealaense
*Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 131 Schlechter 1918
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 130 Schlechter 1918 as Cyrtorchis ealaensis
Kew Bull. 14: 153 Summerhayes 1960
Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989;
Fl. Cameroun 36: 727 Szlach. & Olszewski 2001 as Homocolleticon injoloensis
Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006 photo good;>{? Phytotaxa 267 (3) 173 Droissat & Azandi 2016 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 photo fide;
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