Cynorkis buchwaldiana Kraenzl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 175 (1900).
Description:
Terrestrial herb 8-40 cm. high; root-tubers ellipsoid, 1-2.5 cm. long, 1-1.3 cm. in diameter, woolly. Stem slender, erect, with I or 2 scarious sheaths and 1 or 2 (rarely 3) leaves at the base and several lanceolate acuminate sheaths above, glandular hairy above. Leaves erect or spreading, lanceolate, elliptical or oblong-elliptical, acuminate to obtuse, 3-14 cm. long, 1-3.5 cm. broad, glabrous. Inflorescence laxly or rarely densely 3-30-flowered, 5-18 cm. long; rhachis glandular hairy. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary, sparsely hairy. Flowers pink, mauve or purple, base of lip paler with dark spots, suberect; pedicel with ovary ± I cm. long. Dorsal sepal ovate, subacute, 3-6 mm. long, convex; laterals spreading, semi-orbicular, obtuse, 4.5-8 mm. long. Petals obliquely ovate, elliptical or oblong, 3-4.5 mm. long, obtuse. Lip cuneate in general shape, ± truncate and shortly 3-lobed or 3-dentate at the apex, with a short rounded lobe on each side at the base, 6-9.5 mm. long; spur ± incurved, slender, 5-8.5 mm. long. Column ± 1.5 mm. long; anther-canals short but distinct; rostellum middle lobe very small. Ovary glandular hairy.
Habitat:
In bracken zone; 1200 m.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus.
Key to intraspecific variants of Cynorkis buchwaldiana Kraenzl.
Distribution:
E. Trop. Africa
References:
Flora of Tropical East Africa Summerhayes Orchidaceae Part 1 1968; Additions to the Orchid Flora of Tropical Africa, P. J. Cribb and J. Stewart Kew Bulletin Vol. 40, No. 2 (1985), pp. 399-419
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| Photograph© E.Tanner @ Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Image used with kind permission. |
Photograph© E.Tanner @ Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Image used with kind permission. |
