Cyclopogon tandapianus Dodson 1993

SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993

Drawing by © Dodson and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Tandapi Cyclopogon [A town in Pichincha Ecuador]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador at elevations around 1500 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of obliquely ovate, acute, light green on both sides, cuneate to rounded below into the slender, canaliculate, petiolate base that blooms on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 4.8" [12 cm] long, provided with 6 to 7, appressed, acuminate sheathing bracts decreasing in size upwards, rachis to 6.4" [16 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence with ovate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small fdlowers with green sepals amdthe petals and lip white.

"This species is similar to Cyclopogon ellipticus , and Cyclopogon maldonadoanus but can be distinguished by the much larger flowers, the very broad basal lobes of the lip developed from a cuneate base, rather than a sagitate base, and the lack of short, blunt horns on the inside margin of the isthmus as in C. ellipticus." Dodson 1993

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Orquideologia 19(2): 96 Dodson 1993 Drawing fide;

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

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 257 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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