Cynorkis schlechteri H.Perrier, Arch. Bot. Bull. Mens. 3: 198 (1929 publ. 1931).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Cynorkis exilis Schltr., Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 34(2): 312 (1916), nom. illeg.
Bicornella schlechteri (H.Perrier) Szlach. & Kras, Richardiana 6: 142 (2006).
Description:
Plants thin, 20-25 cm tall tubers elongated, villous; leaves 2, radical, oblong (3-4.5 x 0.8-1.3 cm), apiculate apically and attenuate toward the base; scape with 5-7 distant sheaths, sprinkled with pedicellate glands Inflorescence loose, 7 cm long generally, 7-20 flowered; bracts lanceolate-acuminate equaling about a third to 5 half the length of the pedicel; flowers small (11 mm with the pedicel), lilac and maculate with dark splotches, bearing on the external parts several pedicellate glands. Median sepal sub orbicular, concave, 2.5-3 mm long, 1 veined; laterals sickle shaped, elliptical-obtuse, as long but 2 veined. Petals thicker slightly sickle shaped, oblong-lingulate and 2 veined. Labellum 5-5.5 mm long, 5 lobed, the basal lobes very small and triangular obtuse; the intermediaries very obtuse, thick, divericate, twice as large an the basals, median more oval, slightly larger than the intermediaries, angular-obtuse apically and with its margins irregular, spur straight, attenuate from the base to the obtuse apex (3 x l mm basally). Anther small (0.7 mm), cauda and channel longer than the anther; viscidiums nearly as long (0.8 mm) as the cauda, attenuate from the base to the rounded-acute apex; staminodes slightly projecting, thick margined. Rostellum with 3 small equal teeth. Stigmas sub spatulate, slightly longer than the rostellum, free apically to more than l mm. Pedicel 6-8 mm long, prickly with several glands.
Habitat:
Eastern forests, on rocks; flowering November
Distribution:
NE. Madagascar
