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Orchid Species: Cynorkis sigmoidea

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Cynorkis sigmoidea is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in 1898.
Genus
Cynorkis (Cyn.)
Grex
sigmoidea
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Kraenzl.
Year
1898
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ORIGIN: Found in the Comoros Islands.

DESCRIPTION: Medium sized terrestrial with an oblong tuber giving rise to an erect stem carrying 2, radical, widely ovate to oblong, attenuate, very acute to shortly acuminate-acute apically, attenuate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, 3.2 to 5.6 [8 to 14 cm] long, narrow, loose, 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-acute much shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Bicornella Bicornella sigmoidea 2006 (Kraenzl.) Szlach. & Kras
Add+ Herminium H cymoidea 1898 (Kraenzl.) K.Schum.
Add+ Herminium H sigmoideum 1898 K.Schum.
Add+ Cynosorchis Cynsch sigmoidea
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