Cynorkis gibbosa Ridl. 1883

Inflorescence Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Plant and Flower Photo courtesy of Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar

MID THROUGH

Common Name The Humped Cycnorkis

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Madagascar on shady granite rocks, on steep banks, seepage areas, along streams and at forest edges at elevations of 600 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial herb with several elongated, villous tubers giving rise to a solitary , radical, oblong-lanceolate, purple maculate leaf that is shortly attenuate at both ends and amplexiculate basally that blooms in the mid spring through fall on a bristly granular, sometimes glabrous, densely many [10 to 40] flowered, subcorymbiform inflorescence carrying 2 to 3 distant, cauline sheaths and having 10 mostly simultaneous flowers at any one time

Synonyms Cynosorchis gibbosa Ridl. 1883

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1983 as Cynosorchis gibbosa Ridl. 1883; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 6 2006 photo; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide

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