Kionophyton pyramidalis (Lindl.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982
Plants ensitu in Mexico Photo courtesy of Eduoard Faria
Common Name or Meaning The Cone Kionophyton [Refers to the shape of the raceme]
Flower Size
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica in ravines and grassy slopes, among rocks or in deep humus soils, in oak or oak/pine forests at elevations of 1500 to 2200 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, glabrous, puberulent, from 8 to 30" [20 to 75 cm] long, scapose, densely many flowered inflorescence that is leafless at flowering time [Spring and Summer] and is enveloped by long imbricate, papery brown, ovate-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, glabrous sheathing bracts and spirally arranged flowers. The leaves when visible [late summer and fall] are basal or near the base, elliptic-lanceolate, long acute, petiolate base leaves that drop off before the spring and summer blooming.
Synonyms Aulosepalum pyramidale [Lindl.] Dix & Dix ? ; Deiregyne pyramidalis ( Lindl. ) Burns-Bal. 1986; Gracielanthus pyramidalis (Lindl.) R.González & Szlach. 1995; Gyrostachys pyramidalis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Schiedeella cobanensis (Schltr.) Schltr. 1920; Schiedeella pyramidalis (Lindl.) Schltr. 1920; Spiranthes cobanensis Schltr. 1918; *Spiranthes pyramidalis Lindl. 1840
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as Spiranthes pyrimidalis drawing/photo fide; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Schiedeella pyramidalis drawing fide; Flora Novo-Galiciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as Spiranthes pyramidialis; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 813 Hamer 1983 drawing fide; The Orchids of Mexico Hagsater 2005; The Orchids Of Mexico Digital Catalog Hagsater 2007
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