Cyclopogon multiflorus Schltr. 1922>
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
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Drawing by © Hoehne
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter
Common Name The Many Flowered Cyclopogon
Flower Size 1/4" [6 mm]
Found in Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo and Santa Catarina states of Brazil as a small sized, cool growing Epiphyte with basal, in a rosette, oblong to suborbicular, acuminate, narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, peduncle 5.2 to 8" [13 to 20 cm] long, provided with 5 to 6, lanceolate, acuminate sheathing bracts, rachis 6" to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with inflated, lanceolate, acute, as long as the ovary floral bracts.
Schlechter compared this species to Cyclopogon prasophyllus
Synonyms Beadlea multiflora (Schltr.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Anexos Mem. Inst. Butantan, Secē. Bot. 1(4): 27 Schlechter 1922
Anexos Mem. Inst. Butantan, Secē. Bot. 1(4): Tab 5 Fig 2 Schlechter 1922
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 205 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 102 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 drawing fide;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 301 Garay 1980 publ. 1982 as Beadlea multiflora
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