Cyclopogon pelagalloanus Dodson 1994

SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993

Drawing by © Dodson and The Epidendra Website

Partial shade cold Fall EARLIERWinter

Common Name The Pelagallo Cyclopogon [A locality in Ecuador]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Norte de Santander and Cundinamarca departments of Colombia and Pichincha province of Ecuador on open grassy slopes at elevations around 2700 to 2900 meters as a small to just medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of obliquely elliptic, acuminate, light green with a broad white stripe down the mid vein and each lateral vein and has a narrow pink line on either side of the white stripe, the underside pink, cuneate below into the pink, canaliculate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and earlier winterr on a terminal, erect, peduncle 8 to 11.2" [20 to 28 cm] long, provided with 5 to 8 appressed, decreasing in size upwards, lanceolate, acuminate sheathing bracts, rachis 1.6 to 4.8" [4 to 12 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate acute, herbaceous, thin, glabrous, longer than the ovary in length floral bracts and carrying small flowers.

"This species is similar to Cyclopogon gracilis., but the base of the lip is sessile, expanding cuneately to the lateral lobes, the horn-like basal calli are inserted on the lateral lobes of the lip, and the lateral lobes of the lip are about equal in width to the apical lobe" Dodson 1994

"In our opinion however, it is not related to C gracilis but to Cyclopogon peruvianus. In fact both these species can be separated based on the form of the epipchile only which is transversely reniform and rounded to truncate at the apex in C pelagalloanus versus transversely elliptic and more or less obscurely trilobed in C peruvianus. It cannot be excluded that they are conspecific with C peruvianus taking precedence." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Orquideologia Vol 19 #2 pg 128-130 Dodson 1994 Drawing fide;

Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2005

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 247 fig 269 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

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