Cyclopogon adhaesus Szlach. 1993

SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993

TYPE Drawing by © Szlachetko

Common Name The Stuck to Cyclopogon [refers to the petals adhering to the epichile]

Flower Size .04" [1 mm]

Found in Bolivar and Chimborazo provinces of Ecuador on very dry hills and rocks on almost vertical roadcuts at elevations of 3000 to 3160 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with clustered, tuberoid, fleshy roots giving rise to a basal rosette of 4, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute, somewhat abruptly narrowing below into the narrow, reddish, petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, peduncle rather stout, 7.4" [18.5 cm] long, glandular, provided with 7, longer than the internodes, acute, herbaceous, thin, glabrous cauline sheathing bracts, rachis 2.6" [6.5 cm] long, densely to 30 flowered inflorescence with colorless to brown, lanceolate, acute, , delicate as long as to just a bit shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying tiny, sessile, tubular, completely glabrous flowers with white petals.

Appears to be related to Cyclopogon peruvianus but C adhaesus differs in the petals adhering to the epichile, in the smaller, glabrous flowers, the single nerved sepals, the shape of the dorsal sepal and lip and especially the tubular epichile." Szlachetko 1993

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Candollea 48: 432 Szlach 1993 drawing fide

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