Cyclopogon guayanensis (Lindl.) B.M.Carvalho & Meneguzzo 2024
SUBGENUS Cyclopogon Primeiro registro de Cyclopogon guayanensis (Lindl.) B.M. Carvalho & Meneguzzo (Orchidaceae, Orchidoideae) para o Estado de São Paulo, Brasil
Drawing by Fritz Hamer
Drawing by Alfred Cogniaux courtesy of the Botanicus Website
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Common Name The Guayana Cyclopogon [Refers to northern South America]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Surinam, Fr Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia and northern Brazil in open meadows at elevations of 250 to 1320 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with thick, glabrous roots giving rise to a few fugaceous, leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, cylindrical, peduncle to 5.6" [14 cm] long, provided with several, loose, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate bracts, 2.4" [6 cm] long, congested, many flowered inflorescence enveloped by various, tubular, acuminate bracts.
Synonyms Brachystele aguacatensis (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1920; Brachystele brenesii (Schltr.) Schltr. 1920; Brachystele guayanensis (Lindl.) Schltr. 1920; *Goodyera guayanensis Lindl. 1840; Gyrostachys aguacatensis Kuntze 1891; Gyrostachys hostmannii (Rchb.f. ex Griseb.) Kuntze 1891; Spiranthes aguacatensis Rchb.f. 1855; Spiranthes brenesii Schltr. 1912; Spiranthes guayanensis (Lindl.) Cogn. 1895; Spiranthes hostmannii Rchb.f. ex Griseb. 1864
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 494 Lindley 1840 as Goodyera guayanensis
Bonplandia (Hannover) 3: 214 Rchb.f 1855 as Spiranthes aguacatensis
Fl. Brit. W. I.: 640 Rchb.f ex Griseb. 1864 as Spiranthes hostmannii
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys aguacatensis
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys hostmannii
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891as Spiranthes guayanensis
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 10: 481 Schlechter 1912 as Spiranthes guayanensis
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 373 Schlechter 1920 as Brachystele guayanensis
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 371 Schlechter 1920 as Brachystele aguacatensis
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 372 Schlechter 1920 as Brachystele brenesii
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 302 Hoehne 1945 as Brachystele guayanensis Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: Tab 165 fig 1 Hoehne 1945 as Brachystele guayanensis drawing fide; The Orchids of Panama: 153 L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Spiranthes guyanensis [sic]; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Spiranthes guyanensis drawing fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as Spiranthes guayanensis drawing/photo fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 as B guyanensis sic; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1003 Hamer & Dodson 1984 drawing fide; Selbyana Vol 10: 49 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing good; Genera Orchidaceaerum Vol 3 Orchioideae Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2003 drawing ok;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 112 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as Brachystele guayanensis
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 113 fig 99 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as Brachystele guayanensis drawing fide
*Phytotaxa 658: 110 B.M.Carvalho & Meneguzzo 2024; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
