Cyclopogon congestus (Vell.) Hoehne 1945
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Common Name The Congested Cyclopogon
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Found in Paraguay, southern and southeastern Brazil and northwestern Argentina at elevations around 600 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with a few, erect, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, conduplicate petiolate base leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, 14" [35 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate acute bracts and as long as the ovary floral bracts.
Distinguished by the flared apex to the lip with a reniform apical lobe the lip without calli at the claw of the blade, and the lip base is sessile. The horn-like calli are mounted on rounded basal lobes.
Synonyms Beadlea congesta (Vell.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; Cyclopogon alpestris (Barb.Rodr.) Barb.Rodr. 1881; Cyclopogon alpestris var. bidentatus Barb.Rodr. 1882; Cyclopogon bidentatus Barb.Rodr. 1882; Cyclopogon langei Schltr. 1920; Cyclopogon saxicola Schltr. 1922; *Serapias congesta Vell. 1831; Spiranthes alpestris Barb.Rodr. 1877
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 as C langei; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 drawing/photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 3 Orchidoideae Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmusen 2003 photo good; 100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo ok; Flora of Ecuador 225 [2] Orchidaceae Dodson 2005 as C bidentatus; The Organ Mountain Range, ite History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing/photo fide; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castelo Espirito Santo Brasil Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 drawing/photo fide; Lankesteriana 19(3) 2019 photo fide as C langei
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