Cynorkis pinguicularioides H.Perrier ex Hermans, Orchids Madagascar, ed. 2: 292 (2007).
Heterotypic Synonyms:
Cynorkis pinguicularioides H.Perrier, Arch. Bot. Sist. 5: 45 (1931), not effectively published.
Bicornella pinguicularioides Szlach. & Kras, Richardiana 6: 145 (2006), nom. inval.
Description:
Small plants (10 cm tall at most) glabrous; roots villous, slightly fleshy: leaves 3-4, radical, lanceolate-acute (1.5-3cm. s 4-6mm.), slightly attenuate toward the base. Inflorescence very loose, 4-10 flowered, bracts acute (3-5 mm), shorter than the pedicel, flowers purplish, small (13-15 mm without the pedicel), papillous exteriorly. Median sepal (4 mm), concave, obtuse, 3 veined, slightly shorter than the subfalciform laterals. Petals equaling the lateral sepals 2 veined. Labellum (5.5 x 4.2 mm), 5 lobed and 3 veined, lobes obtuse, the 3 frontals sub equal, much larger than the 2 basals; median vein simple, the laterals branched to the external edge; spur scrotiform, very obtuse (1.2 x 1mm). Anther retuse, cauda 1 mm long, viscidiums unequally bipartate, the frontal part half as long as the other. Rostellum 0.7-l mm long, sub entire in front. Stigmas in small cushions. Pedicel glabrous, 7-9 mm long.
Habitat:
Distribution:
SE. Madagascar
