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Cynorkis coccinelloides (Frapp. ex Cordem.) Schltr., Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 33(2): 399 (1915).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Camilleugenia coccinelloides Frapp. ex Cordem., Fl. Réunion: 234 (1895).
Bicornella coccinelloides (Frapp. ex Cordem.) Szlach. & Kras, Richardiana 6: 141 (2006).
Description:
Plants thin, 15-30 cm tall; tubers small, irregular. elongated and villous; stem sheathed basally with several sheaths, bearing immediately above 2 leaves (rarely a single leaf) basals lanceolate or oblanceolate very acute, attenuate in a long petiole basally, small (1-3cm. x 3-6 mm), flat against the soil, then with the scape, with 2distinctshe.athS, very distant. Inflorescence loose, 3-10 flowered; bracts lanceolate-acute, not more than a third the length of the pedicel; flowers sessile, very small (8 mm), very finely papillous exteriorly, white or violet and maculate with deep violet. Median sepal narrowly elliptical (3 x 1 mm), obtuse and 3 veined; laterals oblong (3.5 x 1.3 mm), obtuse and 2 veined, joining basally. Petals lanceolate-obtuse (3 x 0.8 mm) Labellum (3.3 x 2.5 mm), 5 lobed; lobes subacute, the median larger; 3 veined to the apex of the median lobe, the 2 laterals with a branch in the basal lobes and 2 on the intermediaries; spur scrotiform, 0.6 mm wide. Anther 0.6 mm tall; rostellum tridentate in front; stigmas porrect, thick and truncate apically, much larger (on the fertile flowers) than the anther. Pedicel glabrous, 6 mm long.
Habitat:
Not recorded.
Phenology:
Blooms in the fall.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus.
Distribution:
Réunion, N. Madagascar
References:
Flora of Madagascar: vascular plants: 49th family, Orchids / by H. Perrier de La Bathie; published under the auspices of the government of Madagascar and under the direction of H. Humbert; English revision and translation by Steven D. Beckman
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Photograph ©Frederic Henze. Image used with kind permission.	Photograph ©Frederic Henze. Image used with kind permission.