Cyclopogon iguapensis Schltr.1922
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter
MID
Common Name The Iguape Cyclopogon [A city in coastal Sao Paulo Brazil]
Flower Size .25" [6.2 mm]
Found in Sao Paulo state of Brazil in deep shade in primitive forests often in gullies and sunless narrow valleys at elevations around 1000 to 1400 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with 5 to 6, sequential, dark green, oblanceolate, acute, deeply keeled, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in mid winter on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 12.8 to 24.8" [to 32 to 62 cm] long, provided with 5, closely embracing, acuminate, terete, basally glabrous, minutely glandular pubescent above, rachis to 3.2" [8 cm] long, 25 to 30 flowered, inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, acuminate,as long as to slightly shorter than the flower floral bracts and holding the flowers in an apical cone.
Schlechter compared this species to Cyclopogon bicolor
Synonyms Beadlea iguapensis (Schltr.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Anexos Mem. Inst. Butantan, Secē. Bot. 1(4): 25 Schlecher 1922
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 203 Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: Tab 100 Hoehne 1945 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 300 Garay 1980 publ. 1982 as Beadlea iguapensis
Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 drawing good/ photo ok;
The Organ Mountain Range, ite History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing/photo fide
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