Cyclopogon maldonadoanus Dodson 1993

SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993

TYPE Drawing by © Caloway Dodson and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Maldonado Cyclopogon [A town in Carchi province of Ecuador]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Carchi province of Ecuador at elevations of 1500 to 2800 meters as a just medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a basal rosette, light green on both sides, obliquely elliptic, acuminate, cuneate to rounded below into the slender, canaliculate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 8" [20 cm], enveloped by 7 to 9 appressed, acuminate, decreasing in size upwards sheathing bracts, rachis to 6" [15 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Similar to Cyclopogon ellipticus but C maldonadoanus differs in the much broader basal lobes of the lip, it is distinguished from other Ecuadorian species by the basal lobes much broader than the apical lobe, the small flowers with a 6 x 2 mm dorsal sepal amd the thickenings of the margins of the claw of the blade very broad.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Orquideologia 19: 95 Dodson 1993 drawing fide;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Escobar & Dodson 1993 drawing fide;

Flora of Ecuador # 76 225 [2] Orchidaceae Dodson/Luer 2005;

Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 photo fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 256 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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