Cynorkis sigmoidea Kraenzl., Orchid. Gen. Sp. 1: 490 (1898).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Herminium cymoidea (Kraenzl.) K.Schum., Just's Bot. Jahresber. 26(1): 336 (1898).
Bicornella sigmoidea (Kraenzl.) Szlach. & Kras, Richardiana 6: 146 (2006).
Heterotypic Synonyms:
Herminium sigmoideum K.Schum., Just's Bot. Jahresber. 26(1): 336 (1898).
Description:
Plants glabrous, 30-40 cm tall, tubers oblong; leaves 2, radical, widely obovate or oblong (8-14 x 2- 1.3 cm), attenuate petiolate from the base to the middle or above, attenuate-very acute or shortly acuminate-acute apically. Scape with 5-6 very distant sheaths. Inflorescence 8-14 cm tall, loose and very narrow, 10-20 flowered; bracts lanceolate-acute (4-5mm.), equaling a third the length of the pedicel generally, bearing apically several blackish specks. Sepals finely papillous on the external margin, the median oval-obtuse (3.2-3.5 x I .2-3 mm), the laterals nearly semi-orbicular, (6 x 3 mm), attenuate from the base. 3-4 veined, slightly visible. Petals semi-oblanceolate, obtuse and 2 veined. Labellum finely papillous, thick, opaque, narrow (5 x 1.5 mm), 5 lobed, the basals deltoid, slightly acute, the intermediaries narrow and larger (2 mm), the median longest (3.5 mm) and more acute; spur thick, 5 mm long, slightly swollen in the apical third, attenuate-obtuse apically. Anther l mm tall, channel and rostellum short (0.7 mm), staminodes orbicular, very short (0.3 mm). Stigmas short, but slightly porrect, flat and truncate-free apically. Pedicel generally 15 mm long, slightly hispid-glandular.
Habitat:
Distribution:
Comoros (Njazidja)
