Cyclopogon calophyllus (Barb.Rodr.) Barb.Rodr. 1877
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
Photos by © José A. Radins Argentina
Drawing by © Hoehne
Common Name The Beautiful Leafed Cyclopogon
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil and Argentina at elevations around 900 meters as a small sized, cool to ocld growing terrestrial with a few basal, dark green 2 to 3 striped light green, ovate, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, to 16" [to 40 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, spaced bracts and shorter than the ovary floral bracts
"Distinguished by elliptical, dark green leaves with 3 white stripes in a longitudinal direction. The rachis is several flowers and the relatively small flowers only have short glandular hairs at the base of the ovary, and at the base of the sepals are basally sparsely hairs, almost glabrous. The lip is elongated, slightly widened in the middle and then again widened towards the front into an obovate-cordate, emarginate blade." Hoehne 1945
Synonyms Beadlea calophylla (Barb.Rodr.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; *Spiranthes calophylla Barb.Rodr. 1877
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 182 Barb Rodr. 1877 as Spiranthes calophylla
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: iii Barb Rodr. 1877
Flora Brasilica Fasc. 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 189 Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica Fasc. 8 Vol XII II 13-43: Tab 91 Illustrations Hoehne 1945 drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 299 Garay 1980 publ. 1982 as Beadlea calophylla
The Organ Mountain Range, ite History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide
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