Cyclopogon pululahuanus Dodson 1994

SUBGENUS Cyclopogon

Drawing by © Dodson and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Mt Pululahua Cyclopogon [A mountain in Ecuaor]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador at elevations around 2000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of obliquely ovate to elliptic, acuminate, light green on both sides, cuneate below into the canaliculate, petiolate base that blooms on a terminal, erect, 11.2" [28 cm] long, peduncle provided with 3 to 4, appressed, acuminate sheathing bracts decreasing in size upwards, loosely many flowered inflorescence with ovate, twice as long as the ovary in length floral bracts and carrying small flowers with green sepals, petals and lip white.

"This species is similar to Cyclopogon luerorum but the plant is larger, the flowers more densely arranged, the claw of the blade of the lip is cuneately narrowed with a prominent pair of fleshy calli protruding from the apex of the claw over the base of the apical lobe of the lip." Dodson 1994

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Orquideologia 19(2): 130-131 Dodson 1994 Drawing fide;

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

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 275 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 276 fig 270 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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