Cyclopogon oliganthus (Hoehne) Hoehne & Schltr. 1926 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista Photo by © Ismael Nilton Vischi and Orchidstudium

Plant in situ Argentina Photo by © The Flores de Misiones Blogspot

MID

Common Name The Few Flowered Cyclopogon

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with a few suborbicular, obtuse to round, abruptly narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the mid winter on a terminal, erect, 4" [10 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with a few, tubular, acute bracts with twisted, clinging almost as long as the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Beadlea oligantha (Hoehne) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; *Spiranthes oligantha Hoehne 1918; Warscaea oligantha (Hoehne) Szlach. 1994

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

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