Cyclopogon ovalifolius C.Presl. 1827
Drawing by © Dodson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLY
Common Name or Meaning The Oval Leaved Cyclopogon
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in montane pluvial forests at elevations around 1000 to 2150 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a very short stem carrying 5 to 7, basal, whorled, narrowly ovate, obtuse to acuminate apically, basally subtruncate, into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall through early winter on a terminal, erect, to 12" [30 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence.
Distinguished by the sepals basally united to form a cylindrical tube that is .1 to .14" [2.5 to 3.5 mm] long, the basally rounded blade of the leaf and the sagittate base of the lip.
CAUTION!!! Dodson has 2 drawings made 4 years apart that are completly different, I assume that the newest one is correct, but have provided the first one in case it is more correct. Please use either with caution!!!!
Synonyms Gyrostachys ovalifolia (C.Presl) Kuntze 1891; Spiranthes preslii Lindl. 1840
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 430 Dodson 1989 Drawing hmm; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador 225 [2] Orchidaceae Dodson 2005 drawing fide; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide
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