Cynorkis fimbriata H.Perrier ex Hermans, Orchids Madagascar, ed. 2: 291 (2007).
Heterotypic Synonyms:
Lowiorchis fimbriata Szlach., Orchidee (Hamburg) 55: 315 (2004), basionym not validly publ.
Description:
Plants 40-50 cm tall, tubers fusiform-narrow; roots villous; scape glabrous, sheathed with a long (5- 7 cm) sheath with blackish macules basally, hearing a single developed leaf and with a sheath with its limbus often teas developed; inflorescence corymbiform. 4-8 flowered, very pretty and of a bright purple; bracts large, a third to a half the length of the pedicel. Sepals (10 x 6 mm) obtuse, the median oval, concave and 3 veined, the laterals nearly semi-orbicular. Petals narrow (7.5 x 2.5 mm), falcate, obtuse and 2 veined. Labellum orbicular (3.3-3.5 cm in diameter) in contour, narrow basally, 6 lobed (or 5 lobed with the median lobe being bifid), banal lobes small (3 mm) and triangular-obtuse, margins entire, lateral-intermediaries slightly (12 x 20 mm) dilate-flabelliform-obcuneiform, the front margins fimbriated-dentate and 7 veined, median lobe larger, 13-14 veined, compressed-narrowed basally, divided medially in 2 lobes (8 x l0 mm), rounded and fimbriated-dentate apically, spur narrowly cylindrical, then swollen in the apical third, 3.2 x 3.5 cm long. Anther retuse, 3.2 mm long, cauda and channel 4-5 mm long, viscidiums in the form of an umbrella, creased below, 0.5 mm tall and l mm wide; staminodes slightly visible. Rostellum divided above in 2 projecting-parallel and semi-cylindrical, abruptly truncate in front parts, or separated by a small notch, these 2 projections forming the median superior lobe, median inferior lobe developed, orbicular, incurved between the 2 stigmas, arms thick, 2 mm long. Stigmas distinct, in a thick mass, joined laterally for two-thirds their length, free above, not reduced and notched apically. Pedicel 4-5 cm long, sprinkled with several sub sessile glands.
Habitat:
Distribution:
N. & C. Madagascar
