Cyclopogon miradorensis Schltr. 1925

SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993 Drawing by © Fritz Hamer

LATER EARLY

Common Name The Mirador Cyclopogon

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua, Panama, Jamaica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the Windward Islands in montane cloud forests at elevations around 350 to 1500 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of 3 to 4, ovate-ellipitc, somewhat wavy marginally, attenuate into the canaliculate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, glabrous below, somewhat pubescent above, peduncle 9.2" [23 cm] long, rachis 2.8" [7 cm] long, to 6 to 20 flowered inflorescence enveloped by 5 to 6, elongate sheaths and has lanceolate-linear, acuminate, shorter to as long as the flowers floral bracts

Synonyms Beadlea miradorensis (Schltr.) Garay & Dunst. 1979

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 21: 332 Schlechter 1925

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 181 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945;

Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of Venezuela Vol 1: 26 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Beadlea miradorensis drawing not = C macrobracteata;

Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 612 Hamer 1982 drawing fide;

Selbyana Vol 10 1989 drawing fide

Orchids of Central America: 28 Hamer 1988 as Beadlea miradorensis drawing fide;

Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;

An Orchid Flora of Peurto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing ok;

Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing fide;

Flora Mesoamerica Vol 7 Parte 2 Orchidaceae MBG UNAM 2023

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