Cyclopogon eugenii (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Schltr. 1920
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
Drawing by © Hoehne
TYPE Drawing by © Warming & Reichenbach
Common Name or Meaning Eugene's Cyclopogon [Brazilian Orchid Collector 1900's]
Flower Size
Found in Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo states of Brazil as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 4 to 6, basal, in a rosette, thinly membraneous, delicately 7 nerved, green above, white spotted beneath, ovate, acute, somewhat rounded below into the short, pesudopetiolate base leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, to 16" [40 cm] long overall, peduncle with 7 to 8 adpressed, triangular-lanceolate, acute bracts, rachis short to 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long, 15 to 20 flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, acuminate, single nerved floral bracts and carrying small, erect-patent flowers.
Synonyms Beadlea eugenii (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; Gyrostachys eugenii (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Kuntze 1891; *Spiranthes eugenii Rchb.f. & Warm. 1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Otia Bot. Hamburg.: 84 Rchb.f. & Warm. 1881 as Spiranthes eugenii
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys eugenii
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 388 Schlechter 1920
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 187 Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: Táb. 87, fig. II, Hoehne 1945 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 300 Garay 1980 publ. 1982 as Beadlea eugenei;
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