Cynorkis anisoloba Summerh. 1957
Plant in situ in Zimbabwe Photo by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite
Common Name The Unequal Lobed Cynorkis
Flower Size
Found in the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe in damp to wet soils near rocks at elevations of 1350 to 2400 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial orchid with a few basal, ovate to lanceolate, acute to apiculate leaves and blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, slender, purple, pubescent, laxly many successively flowering inflorescence.
It is distinguished from the closely-related C. hanningtonii by the lip. In C. anisoloba, it is 3-lobed only in the apical half, and the side lobes are much narrower than the mid lobe.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995; Terrestrial African Orchids, A select Review John S. Ball 2009 drawing fide
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