Cyclopogon multiflorus Schltr.1922>

Side View of Flower

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Roberto Martins and hisFlickr Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Many Flowered Cyclopogon

Flower Size 1/4" [6 mm]

Found in southeastern & southern Brazil as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid with basal, oblong to suborbicular, acuminate, narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, 12" [30 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with inflated, lanceolate, acute bracts and longer than the ovary floral bracts..

Synonyms Beadlea multiflora (Schltr.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing ok;

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