Cyclopogon spiranthoides Schltr. 1920
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
Plant in situ Cundianamarca Colombia 1/2011
Back Side View of Inflorescence front
Photos by © Jay Pfahl ©
Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay
TYPE Drawing by © Mansfield 1929
Common Name The Spiranthes-Like Cyclopogon
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Antioquia, Cundinamarca and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia, at elevations around 1650 to 3000 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 2 to 7, basal, in a rosette, erect-patent, narrowly oblong-elliptic, subacute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, terete, peduncle 7 to 12.6" [17.5 to 31.5 cm] long, provided with about 5 to 8, acuminate sheathing bracts, rachis 2.2 to 2.6" [5.5 to 6.5 cm] long, minutely glandulose-puberulent, rarely glabrous, secund, slightly spirally twisted, densely many flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, slightly longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small white flowers.
"Similar to Cyclopogon maderoi but it differs in the smaller leaves with asessile to an indistinct petiolate base and larger flowers. It is also similar to Cyclopogon argyrotaenius but it has slightly smaller flowers and a different lip form." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms Spiranthes spiranthoides (Schltr.) Garay & Dunst. 1976
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 67 Schlechter 1920
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 47: 21 fig 79 1929 as C maderoi drawing fide;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 181 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as C maderoi;
Venez. Orchids Ill. 6: 412 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 as Spiranthes spiranthoides+
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 254 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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