Cyclopogon elegans Hoehne 1944 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium

Common Name The Elegant Cyclopogon

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in southern Brazil and northern Argentina as a small sized, terrestrial orchid with a few basal, ovate, acute to acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, thin, 12" [30 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with 2, well spaced, lanceolate acute bracts and shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Beadlea elegans (Hoehne) Garay 1980 publ. 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing good;

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