Cynorkis cinnabarina (Rolfe) Hermans & P.J.Cribb, Kew Bull. 69(2)-9517: 9 (2014).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Habenaria cinnabarina Rolfe, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1893: 173 (1893).
Benthamia cinnabarina (Rolfe) H.Perrier, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 81: 38 (1934)
Heterotypic Synonyms:
Cynorkis laeta Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 33: 57 (1924).
Cynorkis laeta var. angavoensis H.Perrier, Fl. Madagasc. 49(1): 131 (1939), not validly publ.
Cynorkis laeta var. angavoensis H.Perrier ex Hermans, Orchids Madagascar, ed. 2: 288 (2007).
Description:
Plants 14-27 cm tall, tubers 2, oblong, leaves 3-5, radical, flat, linear or lanceolate-linear (5-9 x 0.8- 1.5 cm), glabrous and acute, inflorescence dense, many flowered, short. Sub corymbiform or ovoid, to 4.5 cm tall and 3 cm in diameter, bracts equal to the pedicel or slightly longer, bearing toward the base some pedicellate glands; fiowers average (generally 2 cm including the pedicel, of a very brilliant purple, glabrous or slightly papillous (except the pedicel). Median sepal 5 mm long, hood shaped, rounded marginally, abruptly contracted in a slightly acute beak apically, 3 veined; laterals curved-arched dilate, very rounded on the front margin, mucronate-obtuse apically, 7 mm long and 3 mm wide medially, attenuate toward the base, which is joined to the base of the labellum and 4 veined. Petals not adnate to the median sepal, curved, linear (3 x 0.7 mm), joined to the bane of the labellum. Labellum 10 mm long, joined basally with the column 2 mm long, trilobed above; lateral lobes subsquare, short and 5 veined; median lobe linguiform (4 x l mm), obtuse, very thick, without visible veins; spur 9 mm long, cylindrical-obtuse, dilate-clavate in the apical third. Anther rounded, 2 mm tall, cauda and channel 4.5 mm long, staminodes free apically with a l mm. Sub rectangular lamina; viscidiums hemispherical (0.2 mm). Rostellum thick, armts 2 mm long, median lobe represented by a small obtuse projection. Stigmas very small and deeply inclusive. Pedicel 7-10 mm long, covered very densely with shortly pedicellate glands.
Habitat:
On humid rocks, from 1200-l800 m alt.
Phenology:
Flowering in February-May.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus, cool growing lithophyte.
Distribution:
C. & SE. 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; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009
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| Photograph Karl Senghas© Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Image used with kind permission. |
