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Cynosorchis lowiana is an orchid species name for which no taxonomic record was found. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cynorkis lowiana.
ORIGIN: Found in eastern Madagascar in humid evergreen forests on shady trunks or moss covered rocks at elevations of 200 to 1200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with 2 elongate, villous, tubers carrying 2 sheaths, 1 short and the other elongate, brownish and tubular enveloping the base of a single, narrowly lanceolate-linear leaf which is slightly attenuate basally and longly attenuate apically that blooms in the late winter through mid spring on a thin, 2.8 to 4.8 [7 to 12 cm] long, single [rarely 2] flowered inflorescence carrying large flowers .
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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