Cyclopogon estradae Dodson 1993
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
Photos by © The Prague Botanical Garden and The Nature Picture Cz. Website
Drawing as C elliptica not = C estradae
Drawing by © Dodson
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Common Name Estrada's Cyclopogon [Ecuadorian Original Collector of species current]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Manabi province of Ecuador in the low cloud forests of the coastal mountains of western Ecuador at elevations around 500 to 600 meters as a medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of 5 or so, elliptic, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 8.8" [22 cm] long, almost completely enveloped by appressed, ovate, acuminate sheaths which decrease in size up the stem, to 8" [20 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with awl-shaped, much longer than the flower floral bracts ands carrying smaller green flowers with a white lip.
Dodson states in Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 that he erroneously identified this species in his Icones series Plate 3 Dodson 1980 as Beadlea ellipticus and also states that Cyclopogon ellipticus is a high elevation terrestrial, from montane cloud forests of the Andes, at elevations around 2500 to 3000 meters and has a much more loosely, compact inflorescence with much larger flowers and shorter than the flower floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Flora of Ecuador #9 225 [1] Orchidaceae Garay 1978 as Beadlea estradae drawing fide;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 3 Dodson 1980 as Beadlea elliptica not = Cyclopogon estradae drawing fide;
*Orquideologia 19: 93 Dodson 1993
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Escobar & Dodson 1993 drawing same as Drawing for Beadlea elliptica drawing fide;
Flora of Ecuador # 76 225 [2] Orchidaceae Dodson/Luer 2005
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 265 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 266 fig 259 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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