Cyclopogon argyrotaenius Schltr. 1921
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
Photo by © G Chiron
Drawing by © A. Maciagowska/Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
LATE
EARLY
Common Name The Silvery Leaved Cyclopogon
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Colombia and Pinchincha province of Ecuador at elevations around 1350 to 2800 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 1 to 3, basal, lanceolate-elliptic, tapering at both ends, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the slender, canaliculate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an arcuate, terminal, short, secund, several flowered inflorescence enveloped completely by cauline becoming bracts above, lanceolate-acuminate sheaths and with linear-lanceolate, acuminate longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Distinguished by the lip being flared with a transversely reniform apical lobe, the claw at the base of the lip, the sagittate lateral lobes, the large horn-like calli that extend from the margin of te lateral lobes of e lip. The column is glabrous and the leaves have a longitudinal silver mark on each side of the midrib.
Synonyms Beadlea argyrotaenia (Schltr.) Garay 1978;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 44 Schlechter 1921
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 47: 77 1929 drawing fide;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 180 Hoehne 1945;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1]: 263 Garay 1978 as Beadlea argyrotaenius;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo good;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[2] Dodson 2005 drawing good;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 253 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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