Cyclopogon plantagineus Schltr. 1920
Drawing by © Dodson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
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Common Name The Plantago Cyclopogon
Flower Size .2" [4 mm]
Found Ecuador and Peru in montane cloud forests at elevations of 900 to 2700 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with a short stem carrying a few, in a basal rosette, narrowly ovate, acute to acuminate, cuneate below into the elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring through late summer on a terminal, erect, densely many flowered inflorescence.
Distinguished by the linear-ovate green leaves, the flared lip apex with a transversely reniform apical lobe, the cuneate base of the lip with a basal calli intermarginal, the floral segments to .32" [8 mm] long, the pubescent underside of the column, and the short inflorescence to 2.4" [6 cm] long.
Synonyms Beadlea plantaginea (Schltr.) Garay 1978; Spiranthes plantaginea Lindl. 1840
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Spiranthes plantaginea drawing fide; Orchids of Peru 1st supplement Schweinfurth 1970 as Spiranthes plantaginea; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as Beadlea platagineus drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 906 Dodson 1984 as Beadlea plantaginea drawing fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2005; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo not; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo ok; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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