Cyclopogon secundum Christenson 2007
SUBGENUS Cyclopogon
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Garay from the holotype
LATE
Common Name or Meaning The Secund Cyclopogon [refers tothe inflorescence]
Flower Size
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia Pastaza and Imbabura provinces of Ecuador at elevations around 1400 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with 2 to 4, rosulate, elliptic, attenuate, subacute, petiolate base leaves that blooms inn the late spring on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 5.6 to 7.6[14 to 19 cm] long, slender, provided with several approximate, lanceolate, acciculate apically sheathing bracts, rachis 1.8 to 2.8" [4.5 to 7 cm] long, 10 to 15 floowered inflorescence with narrowly linear-lanceolate, aciculate, conspicuous longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying tubular flowers with the tepals greeenish white suffused with purple toward the base and a white lip.
"C secundus is similar to Cyclopogon ovalifolius but differs in the dense, seccund inflorescence and the pubescent apex of the lip. C ovalifolium has the flowers borne in a loose cylindrical raceme and the lip apex is glabrous." Christenson 2007
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1: 163 fig 276 Dodson 1993 as C oliviaceus photo fide
* J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1: 1001 Christenson 2007 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 248 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 249 fig 238 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
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