Cyclopogon apricus (Lindl.) Schltr. 1920

Plant in situ Brazil Photos by © Marcio Verdi and Flora Digital Website

LATER EARLY

Common Name The Sun Loving Cyclopogon

Flower Size

Found in Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay as a small sized, cold growing with rosulate, basal, small, membraneous, intense green, erect-patent, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, attenuate below into the short, deeply canaliculate, pseudo-petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, thin, shortly villous to puberulent, enveloped by 1 to 2, erect, ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate, pale, thinly membraneous sheaths, peduncle 2.4 to 6.4" [6 to 16 cm] long, rachis .4 to 2" [1 to 5 cm] long, laxly 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence carrying spirally arranged flowers.

Synonyms Beadlea aprica (Lindl.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; Beadlea diversifolia (Cogn.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; Cyclopogon diversifolius (Cogn.) Schltr. 1920; Cyclopogon platyunguis Schltr. 1925; Gyrostachys aprica (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Spiranthes amblysepala Kraenzl. 1911; *Spiranthes aprica Lindl. 1840; Spiranthes diversifolia Cogn. 1906; Warscaea aprica (Lindl.) Szlach. 1994; Warscaea diversifolia (Cogn.) Szlach. 1994; Warscaea platyunguis (Schltr.) Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 35: 30 1925; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 35: 30 1925 as C platyunguis; Flora Brasilica Fasc. 8 Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 as C diversifolius; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;

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