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

SUBGENUS Stigmatosema

TYPE Drawing of Stigmatosema fuscofloralis by © Szlach and Lindleyana 10: 9 1995

Common Name Garay's Cyclopogon [Hungarian born American Botanist curator of the "Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium" at Harvard University 1924 - 2016]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Parana state of Brazil as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with 5, in a basal rosette, ovate acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, peduncle 11.2" [28 cm] long, provided with acute, herbaceous, thin, hyaline margined, shorter than the internodes sheathing bracts, rachis 5" [12.5 cm] long, upper half glandular denser above, lax, to 15 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, single nerved, herbaceous, transparent, densely glandular outside longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, indistinctly saccate base, sessile flowers.

"The most distinctive feature of this species is the long and thick callus along the midnerve of the lip a feature not found in other species of the genus." Szlach 1995

Synonyms *Stigmatosema fuscofloralis Szlach. 1995

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Lindleyana 10: 17 Szlach 1995 as Stigmatosema garayana;

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

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