Cyclopogon taquaremboensis (Barb.Rodr.) Schltr. 1920

SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993

Drawing by © Hoehne

Common Name or Meaning The Taquarembo Cyclopogon [A town in Uruguay]

Flower Size

Found in Rio Grande Do Sul state of Brazil and Uruguay as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a basal rosette, 6 to 8, erect-patent, oblong-lanceolate, acute, subsessile below into the base leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, peduncle 6.7 to 9.2" [16.4 to 23 cm] long , provided with a few basal sheathing bracts, long pilose, rachis to 3.6 to 4" [9 to 10 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence with erect, pale green, rigid, concave, acuminate, trilineate, longer htan the ovary floral bracts.

"Closely related to Cyclopogon longibracteatus but C taquaremboensis has a more compact habit with shorter, more elliptical, barely distinctly petiolate base leaves anda more densely hairy inflorescence. The lip is more concave and less constricted in the middle that in C longibracteatus and the anterior lobe is significantly broadened and the apex of the lip is distinctly tri-lobed." Schlechter 1920

Synonyms Beadlea taquaremboensis (Barb.Rodr.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; Stenorrhynchos taquaremboense Barb.Rodr.1901

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Contr. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 1: 68 Barb. Rodr. 1901 as Stenorrhynchos taquaremboense

Contr. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 1: Tab XI Barb. Rodr. 1901 as Stenorrhynchos taquaremboense drawing fide

* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 394 Schlechter 1920

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 211 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 107 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 drawing fide

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 301 Garay 1980 publ. 1982 as Beadlea taquaremboensis

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