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Cynorkis Gibbosa
''Cynorkis gibbosa'' is an orchid species in the genus '' Cynorkis'', endemic to forest edges and shaded rocks at altitudes of 600–1500 meters in Madagascar. Its flowers are salmon-pink or red, and about 35 mm in length. 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 0 to 40flowered, subcorymbiform inflorescence carrying 2 to 3 distant, cauline sheaths and having 10 mostly simultaneous flowers at any one time. References * * * ''J. Linn. Soc., Bot.'' 20: 331 1883. The Plant ListEncyclopedia of LifeeFloras Madagascar Catalogue* ''The New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynorkis
''Cynorkis'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is native to tropical and southern Africa, as well as several islands in the Indian Ocean. Species # '' Cynorkis alborubra'' # '' Cynorkis ambondrombensis'' # '' Cynorkis ampullacea'' # '' Cynorkis ampullifera'' # '' Cynorkis anacamptoides'' # '' Cynorkis andohahelensis'' # '' Cynorkis andringitrana'' # '' Cynorkis angustipetala'' # '' Cynorkis anisoloba'' # '' Cynorkis aphylla'' # '' Cynorkis arnottioides'' # ''Cynorkis aurantiaca'' # '' Cynorkis bardotiana'' # '' Cynorkis baronii'' # '' Cynorkis bathiei'' # ''Cynorkis betsileensis'' # ''Cynorkis bimaculata'' # ''Cynorkis boinana'' # ''Cynorkis brachycentra'' # ''Cynorkis brachyceras'' # ''Cynorkis brachystachya'' # ''Cynorkis brevicalcar'' # ''Cynorkis brevicornu'' # ''Cynorkis breviplectra'' # ''Cynorkis buchananii'' # '' Cynorkis buchwaldiana'' # '' Cynorkis cadetii'' # '' Cynorkis calanthoides'' # '' Cynorkis calcaripotens'' # '' Cynorkis c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa across the Mozambique Channel. At Madagascar is the world's List of island countries, second-largest island country, after Indonesia. The nation is home to around 30 million inhabitants and consists of the island of Geography of Madagascar, Madagascar (the List of islands by area, fourth-largest island in the world), along with numerous smaller peripheral islands. Following the prehistoric breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, Madagascar split from the Indian subcontinent around 90 million years ago, allowing native plants and animals to evolve in relative isolation. Consequently, Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot; over 90% of wildlife of Madagascar, its wildlife is endemic. Human settlement of Madagascar occurred during or befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |