Cyclopogon antioquiensis Szlach. & Kolan.2014

SUBGENUS Cyclopogon

TYPE Drawing by © Szlachetko

EARLY

Common Name The Antioquia Cyclopogon [refers to where the orchi occurs]

Flower Size .04" [1 mm] wide

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia on the western cordillera at elevations around 1350 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with 7 basal, rosulate, ovate-lanceolate, acute, narrowly petiolate base leaves that bloooms in the early winter on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 9.6" [24 cm] long, slender, glandular in the upper half, provided with 13, herbaceous, acute, lanceolate, sheathing bracts, rachis 2.4" [6 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, herbaceous, longer than the subsessile ovary floral bracts and carrying small, tubular, glabrous flowers.

"The species is distinguished from all other members of Cyclopogon subgenus Cyclopogon described so far [ !Cyclopogon ovalifolius widely distributed in the Andes, Cyclopogon secundum from Ecuador, Cyclopogon camara-lereti from Colombia and the above-described C. antioquiensis] by its shortly clawed lip, lip auricles ornamented by horn-like projections, and petals prominently constricted below the apex." Szlachetko 2014

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Polish Bot. J. 59: 20 Szlach & Kolan 2014 drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 247 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 248 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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