Cyclopogon camara-lereti Szlach. & Kolan. 2019

SUBGENUS Cyclopogon

TYPE Drawing by © Szlachetko

LATE EARLY

Common Name Camara-Leret's Cyclopogon [Colombian Collector of the type]

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm] wide

Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia in Andean cloud forests at elevations around 2900 to 3200 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with 5 basal, rosulate, ovate, acuminte, undulate crispate margins, canaliculate below into the petiolate base leaves that bloooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 10.4" [27 cm] long, slender, densely glandular in the upper half, provided with herbaceous, acute to acuminate, lanceolate, sheathing bracts, rachis 5.2" [13 cm] long, loosely several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-ovate, acute, herbaceous, glabrous, longer than the glabrous ovary floral bracts and carrying small, erect 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 antioquiensis from Colombia and the above-described C. camara-lereti] by its sessile lip, broadly cuneate, with large basal auricles adorned with marginal incurved, conical thickenings. Additionally the lip isthmus is adorned with involute margins and a central cushion-like thickening reaching to the apex of the epichile. The lateral sepals are connate in the basal 2/3's and form a kind of platform beneath the lip." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 245 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 246 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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