Cyclopogon elatus (Sw.) Schltr. 1919
Photos by © Luis Felipe Varela
Photo by © Eric Hunt
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Common Name The Stately Cyclopogon
Flower Size 1/5" [.5 cm]
Found from Florida, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Bahamas, Cayman, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Venezuela, Surinam, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina in cool wet, scrubby meadows or shaded ravines, forests bordering mangroves or tree filled depressions in lava flows at elevations of sealevel to 2000 meters as a small to large sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial or occasional epiphyte? with rosulate, long-petiolate, elliptic, cuneate, acute leaves with a reddish purple mid-vein that blooms in the spring and early summer on an erect, congested, racemose, 3.4 to 32" [8.5 to 80 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with lanceolate, as long as the ovary floral bracts and to 20 small, tubular flowers.
Synonyms Beadlea elata (Sw.) Small 1918; Cyclopogon densiflorus Schltr. 1921; Gyrostachys haenkeana Kuntze 1891; Gyrostachys minor (Jacq.) Kuntze 1891; Ibidium elatum (Sw.) Salisb. 1812; Neottia elata (Sw.) Sw. 1800; Neottia minor Jacq. 1791; Sarcoglottis elata (Sw.) P.N. Don 1845; *Satyrium elatum Sw. 1788; Sauroglossum richardii Ames 1905; Spiranthes elata (Sw.) Rich. 1817; Spiranthes elata var. foliosa Cogn. 1895; Spiranthes elata var. humilis Rchb.f. 1852; Spiranthes elata var. longipetiolata Cogn. 1895; Spiranthes elata var. minutiflora Cogn. 1895; Spiranthes elata var. ovata Cogn. 1905; Spiranthes elata var. parvifolia Cogn. 1895; Spiranthes variegata Kraenzl. 1906;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Spiranthes elata; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing ok; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Spiranthes elata; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Schlechter 1921 as C densiflorus; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 35: 31 1925; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 47: 108 1929 as C densiflorus drawing fide; Flore Descriptive des Antilles Francaises H. Stehle 1939 as Spiranthes elata; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 as C dutrae drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 as C densiflorus; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 drawing ok; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958 as Spiranthes elata drawng fide; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as Spiranthes elatus; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 8 1962 as Spiranthes elata photo good; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Spiranthes elata drawing good; The Native Orchids of Florida Luer 1972 as Spiranthes elata drawing/photos fide; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 as Spiranthes elata drawing fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as Spiranthes elata drawing/photo fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide/ photo hmm; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 Orchidaceae Mc Vaugh 1985 as Spiranthes elata drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1201 Hamer & Dodson 1982 as Beadlea elata drawing ok; Field Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1985 as Spiranthes elata drawing good; Orquideologia Vol 17 No 3 1988 as Sarcoglottis elata photo plant only fide; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Beadlea elata drawing ok; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Launert 1992 drawing fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing good; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 429 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 3 Orchidoideae Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmusen 2003 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo ok; 100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo fide; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 photo hmm; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005 drawing good; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammell, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2005; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopes and Dressler 2005; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo hmm; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 plant only photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #7 2010 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #1 2012 photo fide; Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Szatchetko & Kolanowska 2012 drawing/photo fide; Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing good; Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medillin Colombia COS 2014 photo fide; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castelo Espirito Santo Brasil Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 drawing good/photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #3 2016 as Neottia minor drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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