Cynorkis filiformis Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 33: 48 (1924).
Heterotypic Synonyms:
Cynorkis hirtula H.Perrier, Arch. Bot. Bull. Mens. 5: 49 (1931).
Bicornella hirtula (H.Perrier) Szlach. & Kras, Richardiana 6: 144 (2006).
Description:
Plants very thin, 8-20 cm tall, tubers 2, rounded or oblong; leaf single, radical, linear-acute (25-7 x 1-3 cm), attenuate-petiolate basally; scape filiform with 3 sheaths, glabrous basally, bristly-glandular apically; Inflorescence loose, to 6 cm long, rachis hispid-glandular, and 2-7 flowered, small (12-14 mm including the pedicel), greenish or reddish with the labellum white, bearing several pedicellate glands on the external parts. Sepals obtuse, the median (3 mm) oval, concave and 3 veined, laterals (4 mm) oblong and 1 veined. Petals lanceolate-acute, 2 veined basally, external margins slightly attenuate to the base and dilate above. Labellum (4 x 5 mm) narrow basally, lateral lobes small and very short, median lobe dilate in a reniform lamina, shortly excised in front with a median apicule; spur narrowly cylindrical-obtuse, 4.5 mm long. Anther very small (0.6 mm), channel and cauda elongated (1 .5 mm); viscidiums very flat, ovoid and white. Rostellum slightly, bidentate, apically. Stigmas not reduced, completely joined. Pedicel 8-9 mm long, sprinkled with pedicellate glands.
Habitat:
In ericoid bushes, from 2400 m alt., flowering in January.
Distribution:
C. & SC. Madagascar
