Cyclopogon carinianus Pansarin 2013

SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993

TYPE Drawing by Pansarin and Brittonia 65: 102 Pansarin 2013

LATE EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The Cariniana Cyclopogon [Refers to a seasonal mesic forest with abundant individuals of Cariniana legalis, a tree which this species is often found in association with]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Sao Paulo state of Brazil in seasonal mesophyllous forests at elevations around 730 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with rosulate, present at blooming, elliptic to lanceolate, asymetrical, dark green, membraneous, undulate margins, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the elongate, pseudopetiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, erect, spirally arranged, peduncle clear green, to 1.6" [4 cm] long, provided with up to seven pale green and glabrous sheathing bracts, rachis maroon-green, villous, 6.4 to 13.2" [16 to 33 cm] long, to 45 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, hyaline green, glabrous, as long as or longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Similar to Cyclopogon elatus but C carinianus differs in the presence of leaves at flowering, that are elliptic to widely lanceolate, asymetrical, and clear green on both sides, the sparsely flowered inflorescence, the longer floral bracts, the clear translucent green of the sepals that have maroon apices, the white, spathulate petals with maroon apices, and a lip with an expanded median lobe wth 2 maroon spots

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Brittonia 65: 102 Pansarin 2013 Drawing fide ;

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