Cyclopogon cochabambae (Szlach.) J.M.H.Shaw 2014

SUBGENUS Stigmatosema

TYPE Drawing by © Szlach.

Common Name or Meaning The Cochabamba Cyclopogon [A Department and a city near where the orchid was discoverd]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Cochabamba department of Bolivia at elevations around 2400 meters as a just large sized, cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 4, gathered in a basal rosette, oval to ovate-lanceolate, subobtuse to subacute, narrow petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, peduncle 15.2 to 16" [38 to 40 cm] long, delicate, upper part glandular, provided with acute, reddish, glabrous, lower as long as, upper shorter than the internodes sheathing bracts, rachis 8.8 to 10.4" [22 to 26 cm] long, 25 to 30 flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 3 nerved, membraneous, herbaceous with hyaline margins, reddish, glabrous to almost glabrous, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small,subsessile, tubular flowers with a shallow saccate base.

"C cochabambae is related to C inaequilaterus but the flattened rostellum is obtriangular, the hypochile is widest in the basal part and concave near the apex, the basal lip lobules are rounded and ornamented with small fingerlike projections and the epichile is transversely elliptic." Szlach 1995

Synonyms *Stigmatosema cochabambae Szlach. 1995

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Lindleyana 10: 9 Szlach. 1995 as Stigmatosema cochabambae

Lindleyana 10: 11 Szlach. 1995 as Stigmatosema cochabambae drawing fide

* Orchid Rev. 122(1306, Suppl.): 37 J M H Shaw 2014

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