Cyclopogon plantagineus Schltr. 1920
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
Drawing by © Calaway Dodson
Drawing by © Szlachetko
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
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Common Name The Plantago Cyclopogon
Flower Size .2" [4 mm]
Found Venezuela, Cundinamarca and Narino departments of Colombia, Pichincha province of Ecuador and Peru in montane cloud forests at elevations of 2700 to 2900 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with a short stem carrying a few, in a basal rosette, narrowly ovate, acute to acuminate, cuneate below into the elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring through late summer on a terminal, erect, peduncle 15" [37.5 cm] long, pubescent above, provided with 3 sheathing bracts, rachis 1.8" [4.5 cm] long, subdensely, secund, many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying whitish flowers with a rose infusion.
Distinguished by the linear-ovate green leaves, the flared lip apex with a transversely reniform apical lobe, the cuneate base of the lip with a basal calli intermarginal, the floral segments to .32" [8 mm] long, the pubescent underside of the column, and the short inflorescence to 2.4" [6 cm] long. It can be confused with Cyclopogon millei but it has flowers that are twice as large.
Synonyms Beadlea plantaginea (Schltr.) Garay 1978; Spiranthes plantaginea Lindl. 1840
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 468 Lindley 1840 as Spiranthes plantaginea nom. illeg.
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 393 Schlechter 1920
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 181 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Spiranthes plantaginea drawing fide;
Orchids of Peru 1st supplement: 7 Schweinfurth 1970 as Spiranthes plantaginea;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1]: 272 Garay 1978 as Beadlea platagineus drawing ok;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 906 Dodson 1984 as Beadlea plantaginea drawing fide;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2005;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo not;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo ok;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 277 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 278 fig272 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Flora Mesoamerica Vol 7 Parte 2 Orchidaceae MBG UNAM 2023
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