Cynorkis hispidula Ridl., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 21: 517 (1885).
Description:
Small plants, generally 10 cm tall, tubers 2, oblong; leaves 4, generally radical, lanceolate-acute, generally 3 cm long. Scape hispid-glandular, clad with 2-3 sheaths, with linear limbuses; inflorescence dense, 7-10 flowered, flowers white, glabrous and small (14 mm generally, with the pedicel); bracts equal to two-thirds the length of the pedicel. Sepals 3 veined, the median very concave, attenuate to the base, wider (4 mm) than tall (3.5 mm), the laterals longer (5 mm). Petals 3 veined, curved in a semi-circle, not adnate to the median sepal. Labellum narrow, spatulate, 4 mm long, dilate (1 mm. wide) in the lower third, contracted above and dilate (0.8 mm) apically; spur half the length or shorter than the pedicel, cylindrical, obtuse. Anther small (0.6 mm); cauda and channel 1.5 mm long; viscidiums oval, small (0.2 mm) and reddish; staminodes sub spatulate, 0.5 mm tall. Rostellum (1.5 mm tall), amts thick, l mm long, median lobe short (0.3 mm), tipped with a median keel. Stigmas sub spatulate, very thick apically, joined laterally, half as long as the rostellum. Pedicel hispid-glandular, 10 mm long.
Habitat:
On granite rocks, humid, from 2000 m alt., flowering in February.
Distribution:
C. & SC. Madagascar
