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Orchid Species: Cynorkis uncata
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cynorkis uncata is an orchid species identified by (Rolfe) Kraenzl. in 1902.
ORIGIN: Found in Kenya and Tanzania on shady paths and banks in upland rainforests or on humus amongst rocks at elevations of 900 to 1650 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid to fusiform, densly wooly root-tubers giving rise to a prostrate at base becoming erect above, slender, bearing 1 to 2, scarious sheaths basally stem and a pair of spreading to suberect, .4 to 3.6 [1 to 9 cm] above the base, lanceolate to oblanceolate, oblong, elliptical, to ovate, apiculate to shortly acuminate, glabrous leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on a terminal, erect, to 6.4 [16 cm] long, rather laxly, 3 to 17 flowered inflorescence.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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