Cyclopogon dressleri Szlach. 1994

TYPE Drawing by © Szlatchetko and The Biostor Website

Common Name Dressler's Cyclopogon [American Botanist and Collector in Costa Rica and Panama current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Cocle province Panama at elevations around 600 to 800 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with 8, in a basal rosette, sagittate, acute, abrupty narrowing and round below into the narrow petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, peduncle delicate, glandular, 9.6 to 11.2" [24 to 28 cm] long, provided with 4 to 5, cauline, herbaceous, glabrous, acute, adnate to the stem sheathing bracts, rachis 2.4 to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm] long overall, dense to lax, 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, membraneous, glabrous, single nerved, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying rather small, slightly pendent, glabrous, green with white tipped flowers.

Closely related to !Cyclopogon ovalifolius but differs in the lip form, C dressleri has lip auricles that are ornamented by fleshy, hornlike, appendices while c ovalifolium has no calli on the basal lip lobules. The isthmus of C dressleri extends into two fleshy suborbicular wings on each side and are bent toward the middle vein forming a kind of channel while the shallow rounded isthmus of C ovalifolium is not marginally thickened.

Synonyms Cocleorchis dressleri (Szlach.) Szlach. 1994; Cocleorchis sarcoglottidis Szlach. 1994

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 39: 558 Szlach 1994 as Cocleorchis dressleri

Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 39: 559 Szlach 1994 as Cocleorchis sarcoglottidis

* Novon 4: 172 D L Szlachetko 1994 as Cocleorchis dressleri

Novon 4: 173 D L Szlachetko 1994 Cocleorchis dressleridrawing fide

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001 as Cocleorchis dressleri;

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001 as Cocleorchis sarcoglottoides drawing fide

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