Cyclopogon peruvianus (C.Presl) Schltr. 1920
Plant in situ Cundianamarca Colombia 1/2011
Back Side View of Inflorescence front
Inflorescence Photos by © Jay Pfahl ©
Photo by © by K Senghas and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbarium
Photo by © by Hilda Dueñas and the Research Gate Website
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THROUGH MID
Common Name or Meaning The Peruvian Cyclopogon
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 1400 to 3100 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the channeled, elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later winter, spring, summer through mid fall on an erect, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence
Distinguished by the tiny flowers with a flared lip apex and a transversely reniform apical lobe, the epichile free from the petals and the pubescent flowers with 3 nerved sepals.
Synonyms Beadlea peruviana (C.Presl) Garay 1978; Cyclopogon cranichoides Schltr. 1921; Cyclopogon maderoi Schltr. 1920; Cyclopogon minutiflorus (Kuntze) Schltr. 1919; Cyclopogon spiranthoides Schltr. 1920; Gyrostachys minutiflora Kuntze 1891; Gyrostachys peruviana (C.Presl) Kuntze 1891; Spiranthes minutiflora Rchb.f. 1854; *Spiranthes peruviana C.Presl 1827; Spiranthes reichenbachiana Garay & Dunst. 1966; Spiranthes spiranthoides (Schltr.) Garay & Dunst. 1976
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 66 1920 as C maderoi; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 66 1920 as C spiranthoides; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 47: 21 1929 as C maderoi drawing fide; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 47: 21 1929 as C spiranthoides drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as C maderoi; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as C minutiflorus; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as C spiranthoides; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Spiranthes reichenbachianus drawing hmm; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as Beadlea peruvianus drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Beadlea peruvianus not = C millei; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 025 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing good; Native Ecuadorian Orchids vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing not = C millei; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001 as Beadlea peruviana photo fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo good; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing fide; Orchids of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo hmm; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo good
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