Cyclopogon dutrae Schltr. 1925 Drawing by © Hoehne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common Name or Meaning Dutra's Cyclopogon [Brazilian Orchid Collector 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in southern Brazil and Argentina as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 7 to 9, basal, erect-patent, lanceolate-elliptic, acute, attenuate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and early spring on a terminal, erect, to 12" [30 cm] long overall, rachis to 4" [10 cm] long, 20 to 25 flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, lanceolate, acuminate, thin, shorter to just longer than the flowers floral bracts and carrying secund flowers.

Synonyms Beadlea dutrae (Schltr.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982

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

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