Cyrtorchis injoloensis (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918 SECTION Homocolleticon Summerh. Photo by © Vincent Droissart and The Reasearch Gate Website

Collection sheet and drawing Collection sheet by © The Royal Botanical Garden at Kew 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.

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 ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; 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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