Cyrtorchis neglecta Summerh. 1960 SECTION CyrtorchisDrawing by © Margaret Stones/Cribb
Collection sheet by © The Royal Botanical Garden Kew Website
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Common Name The Neglected Cyrtorchis
Flower Size
Found in Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda, Zambia and Tanzania in humid forests and gallery forests at elevations of 600 to 1750 meters as a small to just large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with an erect, rarely branching stem carrying suberect, coriaceous, linear, unequally roundly, bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a axillary or beneath the leaves 1.6 to 3.6" [3.5 to 9 cm] long, 4 to 10 flowered inflorescence
"The species may be recognised by the relatively thin and nearly parallel- sided leaves, the small flowers with only slightly curved but relatively long spur and especially the structure of the pollinarium. The two stipites are much less widened than in C. arcuata, while the hyaline part of the viscidium is over 21 times as long as the rather short broad indurated part. On the other hand the anther is beaked in much the same way as in C. arcuata and thus differs from the western C. aschersonii ." Summerhayes 1960
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kew Bull. 14: 148 Summerhayes 1960
Flora of Tropical East Africa Vol 3 Cribb 1989 drawing fide;
The Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996;
Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006;
Phytotaxa 267 (3) 173 Droissat & Azandi 2016;
AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 photo fide;
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