Cyclopogon goodyeroides (Schltr.) Schltr. 1920

SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993

Drawing by © Szlachetko

Common Name The Goodyera-Like Cyclopogon

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in Bolivia at elevations around 3100 meterrs as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of elliptic,acute to somewhat acuminate, glabrous, shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, strict to subflexuous, terete, peduncle 2 to 6" [5 to 12 cm] long, glabrous at the base, becoming densely, shortly glandulous-puberulent towards the apex, provided with 1 to 2, lanceolate sheathing bracts, rachis 1.2" [3 cm] long, densely 5 to 15 flowered inflorescence with erect, lanceolate, acuminate, as long as to a bit shorter than the flowers floral bracts and carrying erect-patent flowers.

Synonyms Beadlea goodyeroides (Schltr.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; *Spiranthes goodyeroides Schltr. 1912; Warscaea goodyeroides (Schltr.) Szlach. 1994