Cyclopogon cranichoides (Griseb.) Schltr. 1921 Photo by © Carl Luer and courtesy of The Swiss Orchid Foundation and the At Jany Renz Herbarium Website

Common Name The Cranichis-Like Cyclopogon

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Florida, Bemize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Leewards, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Windwards, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in lower montane forests at elevations around 300 to 700 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a tuber giving rise to several, erect-patent, ovate, acute, basally round and petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, 1 to 3.2" [2.5 to 8 cm] long, laxly several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, long-acuminate, basally glabrous and puberulous bracts

Synonyms Beadlea cranichoides (Griseb.) Small 1913; Beadlea cranichoides f. alba P.M.Br. & C.L.McCartney 1995; Beadlea cranichoides f. albolabia P.M.Br. & C.L.McCartney 1995; Beadlea storeri (Chapm.) Small 1903; Cyclopogon cranichoides f. albolabia (P.M.Br. & C.L.McCartney) P.M.Br.1998; Cyclopogon nigricans (Schltr.) Schltr. 1920; Cyclopogon storeri (Chapm.) Szlach., Mytnik & Rutk 2003; *Pelexia cranichoides Griseb 1866; Sauroglossum cranichoides (Griseb.) Ames 1904; Sauroglossum nigricans Schltr. 1918; Spiranthes cranichoides (Griseb.) Cogn. 1909; Spiranthes storeri Chapm.1892

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter 1921; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Spiranthes cranichoides; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 as Spiranthes cranichoides drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as Beadlea cranichoides drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 362 Dodson 1980 as Beadlea cranichoides drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 611 Hamer & Dodson 1982 as Beadlea cranichoides drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing ok; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide; ; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005

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