Cynorkis fastigiataThouars

WFO wfo-0000934834 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cynorkis fastigiata, photographed by Claude Kolwelter
fig. a Claude Kolwelter, CC BY 4.0 / 2015-07-25 / obs. 62952904
Cynorkis fastigiata, photographed by Thibaud Aronson
fig. b Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 120580484
Cynorkis fastigiata, photographed by Samuel Brown
fig. c Samuel Brown, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 37512489
Cynorkis fastigiata, photographed by Augustin Soulard
fig. d Augustin Soulard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174568990
Cynorkis fastigiata, photographed by Bruno Senterre
fig. e Bruno Senterre, CC0 1.0 / obs. 72105576
Cynorkis fastigiata, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. f desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 26911736
Cynorkis fastigiata, photographed by Marc Fradera-Soler
fig. g Marc Fradera-Soler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 13933501
Cynorkis fastigiata, photographed by Wouter Van Landuyt
fig. h Wouter Van Landuyt, CC0 1.0 / obs. 183255824

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Cynorkis fastigiata is native: Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles Madagascar ComorosMauritiusRéunionSeychelles
Native distribution of Cynorkis fastigiata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Comoros COM AFRICA
Madagascar MDG
Mauritius MAU
Réunion REU
Seychelles SEY

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 22 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cynorkis cordemoyi Frapp. ex Cordem.
  • Cynorkis decolorata Schltr.
  • Cynorkis diplorhyncha Schltr.
  • Cynorkis fastigiata var. decolorata (Schltr.) H.Perrier
  • Cynorkis fastigiata var. diplorhyncha (Schltr.) H.Perrier
  • Cynorkis fastigiata var. hygrophila (Schltr.) H.Perrier
  • Cynorkis fastigiata var. laggiarae (Schltr.) H.Perrier
  • Cynorkis fastigiata var. triphylla (Thouars) S.Moore
  • Cynorkis hygrophila Schltr.
  • Cynorkis isocynis Thouars
  • Cynorkis laggiarae Schltr.
  • Cynorkis obcordata (Willemet) Schltr.
  • Cynorkis seychellarum Aver.
  • Cynorkis triphylla Thouars
  • Cynorkis triphyllocynis Thouars
  • Gymnadenia fastigiata (Thouars) A.Rich.
  • Gymnadenia triphylla (Thouars) A.Rich.
  • Habenaria cynosorchidacea C.Schweinf.
  • Orchis fastigiata (Thouars) Spreng.
  • Orchis mauritiana Sieber ex Steud.
  • Orchis obcordata Willemet
  • Orchis triphylla (Thouars) Spreng.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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