Cynorkis jumelleana Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 33: 56 (1924).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Bicornella jumellenana (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras, Richardiana 6: 145 (2006).
Description:
Plants thin, 20-40 cm tall, tubers 2, oblong, leaf single, banal, narrowly oblong-lingulate or lingulate (6-14 x 1-1.8 cm), attenuate gradually toward the base, scape bearing pedicellate glands and several distant sheaths, limbuses longly acute. Inflorescence to 10 cm long, 10-30 flowered, very densely arraigned, unilateral or nearly so, bracts lanceolate-acuminate, half as long as the pedicel; flowers white or violet, small (11 mm with the pedicel generally), hearing several small pedicellate glands on the rachis and external parts of the flowers. Median sepal narrowly oval, attenuate to an obtuse beak, 5-6 mm long, laterals oblong, obtuse, 3 veined and of the same length. Petals as long, oblong-lanceolate, 2 veined and with the rear margin slightly dilate above the base. Labellum 6 mm long, dilate above the narrow base, deeply trilobed, to 5.Smln wide between the lobes; lateral lobes narrowly oblong, a third the size of the median; median compressed basally, then widely flabelliform, obcordate and obscurely apiculate medially in front; spur conical, very short (2.5-3 mm), very wide (1.5 mm) at its oriface and attenuate from its base to its apex. Anther l mm tall, channel and cauda l mm Long, viscidiums flat, white, ovoid and slightly thick, 0.3 mm long, situated toward the apex of the rostellum. Rostellum with 4 sinuate teeth on its apical edge. Stigmas entirely adnate. Pedicel covered with pedicellate glands, generally 5 mm long.
Habitat:
In ericoid bushes, from 2500 m alt., flowering in February.
Distribution:
SC. Madagascar
