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Orchid Species: Cynorkis kirkii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cynorkis kirkii is an orchid species identified by Rolfe in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.) in 1898.
ORIGIN: Found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique on seepage slopes, usually in grass tufts over rock at elevations of sea level to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature to medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with 2 to 3, ovoid, villous tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying a usually single, basal, pale green, ovate to elliptic, acute to apiculate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, to 2 [5 cm] long, glandular-hairy, rather closely 1 to 11 flowered inflorescence with long-acuminate, from an ovate base, glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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