Cyclopogon prasophylloides (Garay) Szlach. 1993
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
Photos by © Héctor Castañeda and The Arboretum Universidad Francisco Marroquin Website
Drawinmg by © S Nowak and Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Common Name The Prasophyllum-Like Cyclopogon
Flower Size
Found in Guatemala and Costa Rica, Panama, and Valle de Cauca department of Colombia in wet forests at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with 1 to 6, basal, in a rosette, glabrous, herbaceous, broadly elliptic, acute to obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a slender, erect, terminal, peduncle 8.4 to 16" [21 to to 40 cm] long, glandular in the upper half, provided with sheathing bracts, rachis 2.8 to 5.6" [7 to 14 cm] cm] long, 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, cuneate basally, longer than the flowers floral bracts and carrying small flowers.
"This species has a sessile lip devoid of any callii except the basal auricles. I(ts epichile is transversely elliptic and often has recurved margins." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
CAUTION I have no way of verifying this Photo determination so please use with caution
Synonyms *Beadlea prasophylloides Garay 1980 publ. 1982; Spiranthes prasophylla var. cleistogama Ames & Correll 1942
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 10: 65 Ames & Correll 1942 as Spiranthes prasophylla var. cleistogama
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 301 Garay 1980 publ. 1982 as Beadlea prasophylloides
* Candollea 48: 435 Szlach 1993
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera, and Zamora 2005;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 269 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 270 fig 263 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
Flora Mesoamerica Vol 7 Parte 2 Orchidaceae MBG UNAM 2023
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