Cynorkis betsileensis Kraenzl., Orchid. Gen. Sp. 1: 492 (1898).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Imerinorchis betsileensis (Kraenzl.) Szlach., Orchidee (Hamburg) 56: 69 (2005).
Description:
Flowers of a pale yellow striate with brown. Sepals and petals connivent, hood shaped, oblong-obtuse and 4-5mm long, laterals larger (9-10 x 6 mm), widely oblong and very obtuse. Labellum linear (9-10 x 2 mm), slightly dilate and bifid toward the apex; spur thin, filiform, twice as long (15 mm) an the pedicel. Rostellum with its median lobe small, triangular, hidden by the lobes of the anther. Stigmas longer than the arms of the rostellum, free in their apical half. Pedicel 12 mm long generally, bearing silky hairs on the angles.
Habitat:
Distribution:
C. Madagascar
